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THE 

Indianapolis Centennial Pageant 

Coliseum, June 8th, igzo 



The Book of Words by 
WILLIAAI O. BATES 

The Production by the Little Theatre 

GEORGE SOAINES 

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H. B. WILLIAMS. Publisher 
1920 



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Copyright 1920 
By William O. Bates 



OFFICERS GENERAL CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE 

JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, Chairman. 

A QUILLA Q. JONES, Vice-Chairman. 

FRED HOKE, Treasurer. 

MRS. JULIA BELLE TUTEWILER, Secretary. 



Cover design by Robert Konerstnan, Indianapolis Artist, student of the Art Students League 
New York City and Harry Lachtnan, Paris, France. 



AUTHOR'S NOTE 

The author of this pageant trusts no apology will be thought necessary for its 
omission of many important and interesting events in the history of the city and 
a host of distinguished names figuring in its records — particularly in the period of 
its enormous development since the Civil War. To try to present, with dramatic 
and pictorial effect, a few of the significant and stirring episodes of it.s first half 
century, with only the briefest allusion to matters and personages falling within the 
memory of those now living, has been all that the limitations of time and the 
Coliseum arena have permitted. In doing so only a general sequence of events 
has been attempted, and the calendar has been condensed with a freedom bordering 
upon disrespect. 

Nor has it been felt necessary to adhere invariably to the matter-of-fact 
formula and stilted diction conventional in pageants. Quite 'a number of quaint 
and amusing things have happened in Indianapolis within the past hundred years, 
and if some of them have crept into this picture they may be welcomed by those" 
who delight not in dry-as-dust annals. 

For valuable assistance in connection with the material used particular thanks 
are due to Jacob Piatt Dunn, Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb, John H. Holliday. Mrs, 
F-iward F. Hodges and Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke. 



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Cast of Characters 



•INTERPRETERS : 



INDIANA MRS DEMARCHUS C BROWN 

. INDIANAPOLIS MRS. MYRA RICHARDS 

PRELUDE : Auspices Drama League. 

Junior Drama League Mrs. Leo K. Fesler, Chairman 

MIAMI CHIEF JOHN FERRIS 

GOVERNOR JONATHAN JENNINGS WILLIAM OTTO 

LEWIS CASS DR. C. W. DICKS 

BENJAMIN PARKE ^ ISADOR ADLER 

FIRST EPISODE 

f OMING OF THE PIONEERS. 

JOHN McCORMICK ___•_ CLAYTON MARTZ 

BETHIAH McCORMICK _' MRS. ELIZABETH L. FRYE 

LAVINA. CHILD OF FOUR YEARS VERA COHN 

TABITHA, CHILD OF FOUR YEARS MARTHA J. HESS 

JAMES McCORMICK HOUSTON CAREY 

SAMUEL McCORMICK JOHN McCORMICK 

GEORGE POGUE C. J. BUCHANAN 

MRS. POGUE . MRS. JENNIE THOMPSON 

JOHN POGUE JAMES CASKEY 

JOSEPH POGUE ELAIER KRUSE 

STENCY POGUE ELIZABETH ROBERTS 

JAMES POGUE MARY ELIZABETH COLTER 

BENNETT POGUE . BERNICE PUGH 

NINE AXE-MEN: 

*_ JAMES CASKEY 

GLENN BROWN 

L. N. TAYLOR 

STANLEY MORRIS 

N. B. CARDIFF 

R. W. TAYLOR 

CHARLES F. ROBERTS 

MAJOR McCORMICK 

SECOND EPISODE. 

SELECTING THE SITE. 

Auspices : Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron Stephenson. 

GOVERNOR JONATHAN JENNINGS WILLIAM OTTO 

GEORGE HUNT A. LEROY PORTEUS 

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JOHN TIPTON ALEX HOLLIDAY 

JESSE B. DURHAM J. L. BAKER 

JOSEPH BARTHOLOMEW GORDON LAMM 

JOHN CONNOR B. B. MESSER 

STEPHEN LUDLOW LLOYD JOHNSON 

JOHN GILLILAND ARCH WINTON 

THOMAS EMERSON O. D. PERKINS 

FREDERICK RAPP GEORGE JORDAN 

BENJAMIN BLYTHE _'_ MR. KIRK 

JOHN McCORMICK CLAYTON MARTZ 

AIRS. McCORMICK ELIZABETH FRYE 

MRS. POGUE MRS. E. C. STEPHENSON 

SMALL CHILD MARY E. COULTER 

SMALL CHILD BERNICE PUGH 

BIG BOTTLE, AN INDIAN CARL GRAP 

A SETTLER C. A. PFAU 

HIS WIFE MARY ELLEN WILLIS 

FIRST CHILD BEULAH ZINKELER 

SECOND CHILD '_ ERNA BINDER 

THIRD CHILD 

FOURTH CHILD 

A SETTLER J. W. CHRYST 

HIS WTFE MRS. O. D. PERKINS 

FIRST CHILD HELEN LOUISE PERKINS 

SECOND CHILD CLARENCE ROGERS 

THIRD EPISODE. 

THE LAYING OUT OF THE CITY. 
Auspices : Mr. and Airs. H. A. Schwartz. 

LIEUT.-GOV. CHRISTOPHER HARRISON A. P. STEPHENSON 

ALEXANDER RALSTON :. JOHN DYER 

JAAIES BLAKE THOMAS FLAHERTY 

CALVIN FLETCHER DR. E. F. HODGES 

DR. ISAAC COE HENRY SICKLES 

JAAIES AL RAY ALBERT AIcCOLLOUM 

DANIEL YANDES OAIAR HOUGHAM 

HERVEY BATES KURT VONNEGUT 

DR. S. G. MITCHELL LLOYD WOODSON 

ALEXANDER RUSSELL OTIS IGLEAIAN 

CALEB SCUDDER CALEB EAGLESFIELD 

rfENRY BRADLEY J. L. BRADLEY 

JOSEPH C. REED FRANK SULLIVAN 

THOAIAS CARTER RAYMOND DAVIS 

LISAIUND BASYE VAUGHN CHITWOOD 

GEORGE SAIITH C. F. MARTIN 

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HARVEY GREGG HORACE MOORE 

NATHANIEL C. BOLTON „ALBERT MARTIN 

SAMUEL HENDERSON LOUIS BROWN 

MORRIS MORRIS MORRIS HAYNES 

DR. JANATHAN COOL WILBIR IGLEMAN 

JOHN WYANT ^ PAUL ISKE 

MATTHIAS NOWLAND 

REV. JOHN McCLUNG JOE CLARK 

ISAAC WILSON RALPH CARTER 

GENERAL JOHN CARR CLETUS KRUYER 

MR. McKAYE, a Pioneer WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP 

A PIONEER BERTRAND WARRENBURG 

MRS. JOHN WYANT _KATE BYER 

MUD - 

MALARIA 

UNCLE JOHNNY HAGER CHARLES GUY 

JEREMIAH JOHNSON ROBIN WOODRUFF 

MISS JANE REAGAN ADAH HILL 

THE TOWN CRIER ERNEST KITCH 

POSTMASTER AARON DRAKE CLAUD THORNBURG 

LOST CHILD SUSAN DELBOOK 

FOURTH EPISODE. 

IN THE FIRST THREE DECADES. 

<a) The Primitive Life. 

Auspices : The Knights of Columbus. 

J. W. Driscoll, Chairman. 

Frances Fox, Vice Chairman. 

Co-operation : St. Agnes' Academy. 

Mrs. J. E. Manly. 

Catholic Young Ladies' Home. 

Sts. Peter and Paul's Parish. 

Miss Katherine Hallinan. 

Our Lad;^ of Lourdes, Parish. 

Mrs. F. W. Ashbaugh. 

CALVIN FLETCHER DR. HODGE 

SAMUEL MERRILL 1 ED. HARMON 

THOMAS CARTER RAYMOND DAVIS 

MR. SMITH, the First Actor J. W. STROUP 

.MRS. SMITH, His Wife JENNIE AIKMAN 

THEIR SATELLITE 

MISS PATSY CHINN MISS ALBERTA YEAGERLINE 

(b) Why is a River? 

Auspices : Mr. and Mrs. "Tom" Snyder. 
DILLINGHAM DORSEY, the Schoolmaster "TOM" SNYDER 

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SUSANNAH, a Pupil MARVEL SNYDER 

WILLIAM, a Pupil GALELORD SYNDER 

GEORGE OWINGS, a Pupil NATHANIEL OWINGS 

NATHANIEL DARRELL SNYDER 

A BOY ALBERT LEANE 

MR. BLAKE THOMAS FLAHERTY 

GENERAL HANNA J. W. DRISCOLL 

GOVERNOR NOAH NOBLE LEX DICKEY 

CALVIN FLETCHER DR. HODGES 

FIFTH EPISODE. 

ON MUSTER DAY. 

Co-operation Military Department, Shortridge High School. 

Command Lieut. 

LIEUT. SAMUEL AlERRILL ED HARMON 

NICK, a Militiaman 

KATE MERRILL MARY MARGUERITE TUTEWILER 

COL. ALEXANDER RUSSELL WILLARD S. BOYLE 

CAPT. THOMAS A. MORRIS MICHEAL McCARTHY 

CAPT. LEW WALLACE COL. R. L. MOORHEAD 

MR. BLAKE THOMAS FLAHERTY 

FIREWARDEN - H. D. TUTEWILER 

DANNY RED FRANK HADDON 

DITCH FINDER STEELE CHURCHMAN 

INVINCIBLE FIRE DEPARTMENT 

RELIEF FIRE DEPARTMENT 

SIXTH EPISODE. 

AN OUTLET AT LAST. 

October 1, 1847. 

Auspices: The Little Theatre Society of Indiana. 

Chairman, Mrs. Margaret Beaseley. 

NEWSBOY BENNIE MARC0WIT2: 

CALVIN FLETCHER ED. HARMON 

HERVEY BATES KURT VONNEGUT 

GOVERNOR WHITCOMB ALEXANDER CASANGES 

RINGMASTER JAMES G. MORGAN 

EDWARD KENDALL 

SNAKE- CHARMER LOUISE KIRPLEY 

BARE BACK RIDER MRS. MARIE KARRER 

QUEEN OF THE CIRCUS MARJORIES CHILES 

TUMBLER ROLAND BEASELEY 

CLOWN RALPH BALLOU 

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PERFORMERS Z _ _ 

HENRY WARD BEECHER H. L. EARNEST 

UNCLE TOM MAGRUDER STEPHENSON 

JOHNNY NEW DON ALLEN 

BERRY SULGROVE ALFRED NOLL 

SPECTATOR WILLIAM HAYDEN 

DAVE ALBERT LEANE 

HIS WIFE ^ FESSLER 

SEVENTH EPISODE. 

THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT. 

Auspices : Community Service, Miss Etta Scherf, Chairman, with the co- 
operation of the following: 

1. Dramatic Clubs of Community Service. 

2. L. S. Ayres Community Group, Miss Leona Smith. 

3. New York Store Community Group, Mrs. Mann. 

4. Christian Men Builder's Class of the Third Christian Church. 

5. PoTtawattami Club, Erwin Snyder. 

6. Y. M. C. A. Community Group, Raymond Cook. 

JOHN FREEMAN ARTHUR T. LONG 

REV. S. T. GILLET WILLIAM ENGLES 

GEORGE W. JULIAN _WILLARD BOLTE 

JOHN L. KETCHAM HAROLD C. WATSON 

HERVEY BATES KURT VONNEGUT 

CALVIN FLETCHER _____DR. HODGES 

JOHN COBURN Ji GLENN KINGHAM 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ESTAL TAYLOR 

GOVERNOR MORTON JOHN L. ALBRIGHT 

LEW WALLACE R. L. MOORHEAD 

NEWSBOY WADE PRICE 

COACHMAN 

MAJOR GORDAN LLOYD CLAYCOMBE 

COLONEL DUMONT JOSEPH J. DANIELS 

MRS. ABIGAIL A. CADY DOROTHY HAINES 

MRS. ALMUS E. VINTON MRS. FREDERIC KRULL 

MISS MARY H. VINTON JUNE HUNT 

FIRST VOICE ARLEIGH WALTZ 

SECOND VOICE GLENN CAMPBELL 

CAVALRY OFFICER NELSON ADAAIS 

JOHN RAY ALBERT McCOLLOUM 

BUGLER 

JAMES BLAKE THOMAS FLAHERTY 

CATHERINE MERRILL MRS. HENRY C. KETCHAM 

LEADERS OF THE BOUNTY JUMPERS CLARENCE HICKS 

NEWSBOYS 

EIGHTH EPISODE. 

THE BALLET OF THE GIFTS. 
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Indianapolis 
Centennial Pageant 

The scenes take place on and around a stage in the center of the Coliseum 
arena. It has steps leading up to it on all four sides and is elsezvhere masked by: 
foliage. East and zvest of the stage are elevated rustic pedestals bearing 
rock seats, that an the zvest for the symbolic figure of INDIANAPOLIS, and' 
on the east for a corresponding figure of INDIANA. Both entrances to the arena- 
are screened, zv-ith zvidc passage zvays right and left for marching troops, process 
siqns, etc. Suspended over center stage is a representation of the moon. Four tall 
standards on the stage bear pennons of Spain, France, England and the United 
States. 

PRELUDE 

The tzvo symbolic figures take their places on the pedestals. Miami Indians 
enter from the zvest and dancing circle the figure of INDIANAPOLIS {in th'eir 
language TCANKTUNUNGI, "Makes-a-noise-place") chanting: 

Tcanktunungi, Tcanktunungi, 

Pleasant are thy wooded spaces, , 

. By Wapikamiki's waters. 
Here the wild deer gather thickest, 
Here the arrow finds the salmon, 
Hither run our trails unnumbered 
For the river-crossing sandbar. 
Tcanktunungi, "water's music," 
Our Miami fathers named thee. 

MIAMI CHIEF 

Through the forest glades unto thee, 
Tcanktunungi, I have led them. 
These my people. Here their moon dance 
Ever they have danced before thee. 

TCANKTUNUNGI 
Welcome, my Miamiaki, 
To the spot your fathers' wigwams 
And their camp-fires long have hallow'd. 
Yours the land — and yet a shadow 
On my spirit, a foreboding, 
Warns me that our parting cometh. 
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INDIANA 

Yea, my daughter, you have spoken 

With prophetic words unto them, 

For my white sons ever northward. 

Ever westward pressing onward. 

Claim these forests for their corn-lands, 

Bid me send beyond the Wabash 

All your tribes .that here inhabit, 

Delaware, Miamiaki. 

Yet my solemn promise binds me 

Payment shall be made them justly — 

Mv Commissioners I send them. 



TCANKTUNUNGI 

Oh, my Mother Indiana, 
Sad of heart I bow before thee. 
Dear these children of the forest — 
As they love me I have loved tliem. 
Let them dance once more before mel 



INDIANA 

Be it as you will, my daughter 1 

TCANKTUNUNGI 

Come, ye sad Miamiaki ; 

Shining yet the Moon above us 

As it shines beyond the Wabash. 

Surely she will light ye thither 

If ye dance her dance before me. 
The Miamis, joined by others who conic from the west, mount the stage and 
begin a dance about the moon. Presently a shadozv appears upon one side of the 
orb. The dance is stopped abruptly and the Mianus make appeal: ' 

Tcanktunungi, help us, aid us, 

For the Moon her light denieth — 

Even she is turned against us I 

TCANKTUNUNGI 

Nay, my children, evil spirits 
" Seek to compass her destruction ' 

That she may not shine upon ye. 
She is sick, your help entreating ... 

To drive off her demon foemen. 
Rescue her and terrify them ! ' 

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At once the Indians set up a terrific din, shouting, beating drums, discharg- 
ing arrows and guns, etc., until the eclipse passes. Meanwhile the State Cotmnis- 
sioners, GOV. JENNINGS, LEWIS CASS and BEN J. PARKE have come from 
the east entrance on horseback, bringing the treaty, strings of wampum, rolls of 
red cloth, beads, etc., and have paused beneath INDIANA. 

INDIANA 

Welcome now, Miami sachems, 

Those who come to make the treaty, 

Presents and peace tokens bringing. 

Let them sit in council with you. 

Let the tomahawk be buried. 

Let the calumet be lighted — 

Trust their promises — I make them ! 

The three zvhite men mount the stage ztnth uplifted right hands, and are gravely 
greeted by the Indians. All seat themselves in a circle about a camp-fire which 
is lighted in the middle and the peace pipe is passed, the presents distributed and 
the treaty signed. Then the white men bid farewell, resume their horses and ride 
back eastward, while the Indians circle the stage singing a mournful chant, de- 
scend and circle the pedestal of TCANKTUNUNGI in like manner, and go out 
at the west entrance, with backzvard glances of sorrow. 



COMING OF THE FIRST SETTLERS . 

/ INDIANA 

r Pioneers who long have waited, 

^ Eager for this vast "New Purchase," 

Come and make your homes upon it — 

Come and people it with heroes 1 

From the eastern entrance (above which appears the illuminated word "Conners- 
ville") come — on horseback and in a rude pioneer wagon — JOHN McCORMICK 
and his brothers, JAMES and SAMUEL, accompanied by John's family and several 
men carrying axes. _ _ a. . ! 

TCANKTUNUNGI 

Welcome to thee, John McCormick, 
And unto thy brothers welcome I 
Fruitful shall the generations be 
Which name their children for ye. 
The McCormicks come upon the stage and look about them. 



JOHN McCORMICK 
Well, Jim, what do you think of this? 

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JAMES McCORMICK 
A right likely place. But we might go on down to Whetzell's on the White 
River Bluffs and have a look around there before we locate. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
No, there are too many fish here for me to go further. Good boat-landing, 
rich soil and this creek over here looks fine for a mill stream. What do you 
5ay, Bethiah? 

MRS. JOHN McCORMICK 
John, I'm plumb tired of that old wagon jostling over logs and down into 
.-marshes. Let's stop here — a pretty place here on the river bank. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
'Nough said! (To the axemen, pointing) Boys, you may build me a cabin 
.right here. (Which they proceed to do zvith a celerity only possible in pageants.) 

SAMUEL McCORMICK 
(Pointing westward, whence GEORGE POGUE, his wife and five children, 
including two grown sons, are seen coming by wagon and on horseback.) Well, 
look who's here ! 

JOHN McCORMICK 
Why, I beHeve it's George Pogue. (Calling.) That you, George Pogue? 

GEORGE POGUE 
<(C ailing.) Who's here?. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
The whole McCormick tribe is here — and here we're going to stay. Where 
you bound for? 

GEORGE POGUE 
Here for us too. Got here this morning and just been driving around looking 
things over. 

TCANKTUNUNGI 
Long shall rage the mighty conflict 
As to which of ye came foremost. 
Hear me now declare my verdict : 
Each arrived before the other! 

' JOHN McCORMICK 

Good! Come and share our cabin until we can help you build one I 

GEORGE POGUE 
No, I've got one already— over east of here a little ways on that hill above 
the creek. Ute Perkins built it last year, but got sick and moved back to Fayette. 

MRS. POGUE 
Not much encouragement that for the rest of us! 

JOHN McCORMICK 
Better camp here— good many Indians about yet. 

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GEORGE POGUE 

Shucks, I'm not af eared of the biggest Indian that ever trod moccasins. They 
just naturally let me alone. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
Glad we're to be neighbors, anyway. 

GEORGE POGUE 
Fare ye well! Giddap there, you Sal and Pete! (Goes out cast singing, "When- 
I can read my title clear to m-ansions in the skies" at the top of his voice.) 

JAMES McCORMICK 
Well, John, now that j'ou're settled here, I reckon Sam and I'd best go on back 
to Connersville ' and bring our families. I'll have Patsy and the children back 
here in a week. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
All right, boys. Tell the folks in Fayette we've located the exact center of 
the Universe, right here on White River. (All leave the stage for the cabin belov^ 
to which are transferred their belongijigs, after -which JAMES and SAMUEL Mc^ 
CORMICK, after farewell greetings, take the wagon and go off eastzvard, accom- 
panied by some of the axemen on horseback.) 



SELECTING THE SITE 

INDIANA 

J? Tcanktunungi, honor waits thee! 

'^ ■ I am sending hither wise men 

Who will make thee my home city 

Where my lawgivers assemble, 

Whence my mandates shall be spoken. ' '5-.; 

' " Lo, behold them coming j-onder ! '< 

, TCANKTUNUNGI ' . ■ 

Many capitals the land had 
• Ere this diadem thou gavest 

Me, all poor to match with lustre : 
Paris. Versailles, Quebec, London, 
Williamsburg and Richmond also ; 
Marietta for a season ; 
Vincennes then, Corj-don lastly — ■ 
How shall I compare dominion? 

Enter from the zvest on horseback Gov. Jennings and the nine Commissioners, 
George Hunt, John Tipton, Jesse B. Durham, Joseph Bartholomew, John Conner, 
Stephen Ludlow, John Gilliland, Thomas Emerson and Frederick Rapp, accompa- 
nied by Benjamin I. Blythe, Clerk. They are in earnest discussion as they dis-^ 
mount and come upon the stage. 

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JENNINGS 
Well, gentlemen, we have now visited the three places among which we must 
choose to secure a central location, Conner's Station, the White River Bluffs and 
here at the mouth of Fall Creek. The time has come -to decide where we shall 
locate the four sections voted us by Congress. What say you, Hunt — you are 
chairman ? 

HUNT 
Why, Governor Jennings, each place has advantages of its own, but if a 
central location is the main point, this is much nearer the exact center of the State 
than either of the others. 

JENNINGS 
Have you changed your mind about the Bluffs, Gen. Tipton? 

TIPTON 

If it were not for that branch back of the Bluffs it would be the most beautiful 
site for a town I have ever seen. But the land here is level as well as rich. 

JENNINGS 
Mr. Conner, I think we know 3'our choice. 

CONNER 

Yes, I prefer Conner's Station, of course. My brother William had the whole 
country to choose from when he settled there. 

JENNINGS 
Col. Durham? 

DURHAM 
It seems to me the fact that the river here has elevated banks on both sides is 
an important consideration — not only in time of high water but also as favoring a 
bridge for the National Road. This is not true of any place else in the region. 

JENNINGS 
What do you say to that, Gen. Bartholomew? 

BARTHOLOMEW 
Quite as important is the fact that there is a fine boat landing here. The 
town will always have to depend mainly upon White River for its transportation. 

JENNINGS 
Ludlow? 

LUDLOW 
This is the place for me — level as a barn floor ! 

GILLILAND 
Yes, but how about drainage? 

LUDLOW 
That's so, Gilliland — I hadn't thought of that. 

JENNINGS 
Well, Emerson ? ' \ 

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EMERSON 

This suits me. 

JENNINGS 
How say you, Rapp? 

RAPP 
Me too. 

TIPTON 
Then I move we make the location here. 

HUNT 

Gentlemen, so many of you as are in favor of this place for the capital of 
Indiana, say "aye." 

ALL 
Aye. 

HUNT 

That makes it unanimous. You may make out our report, Mr. Blythe, and 
we'll sign it forthwith (impressively) on this seventh day of June, 1820. 

BLYTHE 

Yes, sir, at once. (He hurries down and enters the McCormick cabin and is 
shortly followed by the Commissioners, in groups.) 

Mcanzvhile from the west have come two emigrant families on foot carrying 
bundles and various household goods. 

JENNINGS 
Our choice is bearing fruit already, gentlemen. (Calling) I say, friends, did 
you come up the River? 

A SETTLER 
Yes, we came up in a keel boat as fur as we could and then reloaded into a 
flat boat and our canoe. 

JENNINGS 
You are just in time to choose a home site in the new capital of Indiana. 
And you have the honor of opening the navigation of White River, too. 

SETTLER 
Well, ef we'd knowed about all them snags and sandbars I'm doggonned ef 
we'd have been so brash. Where can we camp? 

JENNINGS 
McCormick can tell you — I'll send him out. (He follows the Commissioners 
into the cabin. McCormick comfs out and confers with the nezvcomers. The 
Commissioners come out and, remounting their horses, ride off eastward. Lastly 
Jennings. 

JENNINGS 
Good bye, McCormick. Don't let the capital get lost in the woods I 

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Mccormick 

Good bye, Governor ! I'll try to keep it here until you get back. 

As the Commissioners go aivay, BIG BOTTLE, a Delazvare Indian (a bottle 
<at his belt giving color to the name), makes stealthy approach to the door of the 
McCormick cabin, upon ivhich he knocks loudly. It is opened from iinthin by 
Mrs. John McCormick. 

AIRS. JOHN McCORAIICK 
What does Indian want? 

- BIG BOTTLE 
i^Holding out his bottle.) Big Bottle want whisk'. 

MRS. JOHN McCORMICK 
(Slamming the door shut.) No! Go away! (Big Bottle hammers the door 
with his tomahawk, shouting a war-cry) Murder! Help, help, help! Murder 1 
{The men run and drag Big Bottle away.) • 

JOHN McCORMICK 
Here! What are you trying to do? 

BIG BOTTLE 
Big Bottle make noise to scare white squaw. 

JOHN McCORMICK 
(Pointing.) Big Bottle, there is more room for your brand of humor on the 
other side of the river. You go quick and make your noise over there! If you 
•ever try to scare my squaw again I'll shoot you. 

MRS. JAMES McCORMICK 
(Coming out with gun.) Yes. John, and if you're not here I'll do it myself. 

McCORMICK 

Good for you, Patsy! (Giving Big Bottle a shove.) Off with you! (Big 
Bottle sullenly swaggers off westzvard, pausing nozv and then to pantomime the 
taking of a scalp.) 

From the east comes running Mrs. Pogue, follozved by tzvo small children and 
41 dog. She shows great distress. All the McCormicks have remounted the stage. 

MRS. JOHN McCORMICK 
Look, John! There comes Mrs. Pogue and she seems to be in tfouble. 

JOHN McCORMICK 

{Calling.) Anything wrong, Mrs. Pogue? 

MRS. POGUE 
Oh, Mr. McCormick, I'm afraid the Indians have killed George! 

JOHN McCORMICK 

Why do you think so? 

MRS. POGUE 
His horses were stolen and Wyandotte John told him a camp of Delawares on 
Buck Creek had them. He took his gun and dog and started off after them alone 

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—he was always so venturesome that way. And, oh. Mr. McCormick, the dog 
has come back without him! He'd ntysj have done that if George was alive. 

MRS. JOHN McCORMICK 
Get the men, John, quick, and go help hunt for him. (Her arms about Mrs. 
Pogiie.) You poor thing! 

JOHN McCORMICK 
(Calling.) Get your guns, men! We must go look for George Pogue. 
(With other men he hurries off castuxird, slozi-ly foUozved by the women and 
children.) 

TCANKTUNUNGI 

Blood upon my corner stone is 
And a mystery miending. 
None may comfort this bereaved one. 
Yet her name shall be forever 
Linked with mine in recollection. 
And one day above the streamlet 
Drifting by her cabin doorway 
Shall the stately Parkway Pogue be. 



PLATTING THE TOWN 

INDIANA 

, Tcanktunungi, hence no longer 

Shall men name thee "Makes-a-noise-place" : 

"Indianapolis" I christen 

Thee, thus claim thee mine own city, 

Promising that thy achievements 

Shall out-thunder falling water. 

And thy forest shades and marshes 

Be to palace realms transmuted. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Mother Indiana, help me 
^"'" To be worthy this great honor ! 

INDIANA 

My Lieutenant I am sending 
Who shall plan your streets and name them. 
See. he comes, and with him coming 
Brings an engineer most gifted ! 
Harrison and Ralston : greet them ! 

Lieutenant-Governor Christopher Harrison and Alexander Ralston come upon 
the stage from the east. 

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1 INDIANAPOLIS 

Gentlemen, with such scant comforts 
As my forests hold, plus beauty 
Unadorned, I give you welcome 1 

HARRISON 
Truly, Ralston, this place wins upon ray spirit. You know I have lived long 
a hermit, and here I might realize the poet's vision : 

"Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness — 
Some boundless contiguity of shade." 

RALSTON 
Ah, Judge Harrison, you were ever a dreamer ! Our present business here 
is to prepare this "boundless contiguity of shade" for the busy marts of men and 
carve out a capital in the woods. 

HARRISON 
"Well said, old mole — a worthy pioneer !" "Come, give us a taste of j'our 
quality 1" What's your plan? 

RALSTON 
What say you to a modification of Major L'Enf ant's spider-web plat for 
Washington, which he based upon that of Versailles? As his assistant, I know 
it well. We might, too, follow the Washington plan of naming our streets for 
the States of the Union? 

HARRISON 

Capital, indeed ! So shall the new head city of Indiana trace its ancestry 
back to that which Indiana's first ruler ordained for the capital of France ? 
Necromancer, begin your incantation ! 

RALSTON 

(Indicafiiiij position center stage.) This shall be the center: on this knoll shall 
the Governor's mansion be built. (M^aving a zvand.) Come, ye weavers of the 
spider loom, and spin me a web in which all Hoosiers shall be caught! (To dance 
music, coryphees come from all sides bearing long and wide colored ribbons. Some 
of them put in the center a ring zvhich they bring to symbolize the 
Circle. Then, dancing to the music, others put doxvn and fasten upon the stage 
ribbons designatincr the north and south streets of the original mile-square plat; 
then the corresponding east and zvest streets; finally, the diagonals indicating the 
four az'cnnes. .-is they vanish Ralston surveys the work and declares: It will be 
a beautiful city — if it is ever built ! 

INDIANAPOLIS 
It shall be built. It shall rise in wood, brick, stone and iron — even as its plan 
now rises before you! (She gives an imperious gesture and the plat lifts into the 
air, forming a canopy over the stage.) 

INDIANA 

I am sending you my bravest and best for this work. Call the roll and they 
will answer ! 

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THE MASTER BUILDERS 

INDIANAPOLIS 

All hail to the mast';r-l)iiilders ! As I name them, let them stand forth and de- 
clare their callings! {During the dance pioneers in all sorts cf primitive convey- 
ances and on horseback have been gathering about the stage. As each name is 
called its onmcr mounts flic stage and, announcing his occupation, is greeted by In- 
dianapolis with a word or tivo of prediction as to the part lie is to play in the 
tozvn's history.) James Blake. 

BLAKE. 

Oh, I can do 'most anything. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
And many tasks will he given you, James Blake. You shall be a leader in 
my community — its grand old man for fifty years! Calvin Fletcher. 

FLETCHER 
Farmer, lawyer and whatever else comes to hand. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
Active and eminent in all good works, Calvin Fletcher, you will be a tower 
of strength to your State and city in an hour of deadly peril. Isaac Coe. 

DR. COE 
Doctor. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
All too soon you will l^e needed here. Dr. Coe — a ministering angel to the 
afflicted, ever foremost in charity and benevolence. James M. Ray. 

RAY 

Lawyer. v. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

You ^hall be my first county clerk and hold other offices of honor and trust 
— a banker on whose integrity men rely, a church worker most faithful. You 
four shall be the corner-stones of my community as it stands four-square to the 
world. Daniel Yandes. 

YANDES 

Tanner. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
My first count}- treasurer, you shall prosper worthily, as shall your descend- 
ants. Hervey Bates. 

BATES 

I am ready for anytliing honest and helpful. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You sliall be the first sherift', the first banker and build my most famous hotel. 
S. G. Mitchell. 

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MITCHELL 

Doctor. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Your brethren shall honor you as founder of their first medical society. Alex- 
ander Russell. 

RUSSELL 

Alerchant. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
I see you leading my soldiers on horseback. Caleb Scudder. 

SCUDDER 
Cabinet-maker. ; 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You shall make church converts as well as cabinets. Henry Bradley. 



BRADLEY 

INDIANAPOLIS 

REED 
INDIANAPOLIS 

CARTER 
INDIANAPOLIS 

BASYE 



Carpenter. 
Joseph C. Reed. 

School teaclier. 
Thomas Carter. 
I plan to open a tavern. 
Lismund Ba^ye. 

Nothing stumps me. ^ 

INDIANAPOLIS 
This will he a town of stumps. George Smith. 

SMITH 
Printer. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You shall found the first newspaper and be a circuit judge. Harvey Gregg. 

GREGG 
Lawyer. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You will discover a journalistic asteroid which shall finally swell into a fixed 
star. Nathaniel C Bolton. 

BOLTON 
Editor. 

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INDIANAPOLIS 
Poetry will bring you fame — ^but it will be written by your wife. Samu' 
Henderson. 

HENDERSON 
Tavern-keeper, 

INDIANAPOLIS 

First official postmaster — then first mayor. Morris Alorris. 

MORRIS. 
Lawyer and Kentuckian. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Your son shall be illustrious in the military service of his country. Jonatha; 
Cool. 

COOL 



Doctor. 

John Wyant. 
Tavern-keeper. 
Matthias R. Nowland. 
Brick-maker and mason. 
Nicholas McCarty. 
Merchant. 



INDIANAPOLIS 

WYANT 
INDIANAPOLIS 

NOWLAND 
INDIANAPOLIS 

McCARTY 



INDIANAPOLIS 
Eminent in business, skilled in Indian dialects and your party's nominee for 
Governor. John McClung. 

McCLUNG 
I am a New Light preacher. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You shall make many converts and see your church grow to a power in the 
land. Isaac Wilson. 

WILSON 
Miller. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
You will build the first house on my new town plat. General John Carr here 
will sell you the lot for it, and you can all arrange your locations with him. (Ini' 
mediately there is a scramble among the pioneers who rush about under the plat, 

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choosing sites, arguing in pantomime, gesticulating and crozvding about Carr, who 
rapidly makes entries in his record book.) Are you ready to report, General Carr? 

CARR 
First sale to Jesse AIcKay, Lot 3, Square 70, on Washington street near Mis- 
souri, at $152.75 ; northwest corner of Delaware and Washington brings the high- 
est price, $560; next highest, northwest corner of Senate and Washington. $500; 
northeast corner of Capitol and Washington, $450; northeast corner of Pennsyl- 
vania and Washington, $300; northwest corner uf Washington and Illinois, $243.75. 

A PIONEER 
Yes, and I was a fool to pay such an extravagant price for that lot — cost 
nearly as much more to clear ofif the timber. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Never mind the details — give us your totals. 

CARR 

Three hundred and fourteen lots bring $35,596.25— with cash payments of 
$7,119.25. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Kneel, my sons and daughters, and hear my prophecy! (All kneel facing hcr.y 
Ye have chosen homes here in the wilderness, far from other settlements, a lancJ 
tree-covered and made difficult to traverse by ravines, swamps and bayous. But 
be of brave hearts and good cheer, for this is to become an ever-during metropolis, 
the greatest inland city in America. Where ye now build your rude cabins tower- 
ing palaces will rise, and one day your descendants will search out these sites ye 
have chosen and muse with reverence upon your heroic outsetting and with wonder 
upon the mighty changes a century has wrought. But ere that day comes ye will 
have hardships, privations, sickness, death even, to < ncounter. Behold. I show ye 
in vision two of the enemies who will assail ye. MUD and MALARIA! (Calling 
westzcard) Come, ye Spirit Pioneers I 

(From the Zi'cst comes a group of grey-clad dancers to elfin music.) Retire 
and give them room! (The actual settlers leave the stage and their places are 
taken b\ the dancers zi'ho begin a stately minuet. Then from their hiding placed 
come the sinister figures of MUD and MALARIA, the first a huge creature clad 
all in black, black-masked and carrying enormous pincers; tlie second, a gigantic 
mosquito carrying a lance. They attack the dancers. MUD seizing them with his 
pincers zi'hile MALARIA jabs them zcith the lance. The minuet is converted into a 
fantastic St. Vitus dance in zchich the participants shake icith ague chills.) 

INDIANA 
Enough, lest tlieir liearts faint within them ! 

INDIANAPOLIS 
Begone and give place to more joyous scenes! (The dancers and their assail- 
ants go as they came. Then Dr. Coe and Dr. Cool take the stage.) 

DR. COOL 
Oh, Doctor Coe, oh, Doctor Coe, 
Why do you dose your patients so? 

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DR. COE 
Oh, Doctor Cool, oh, Doctor Cool, 
Why must a poet be a fool? 
The doctors are followed upon the stage by other pioneers. Indians come 
from the zi'est bringing venison, turkeys, corn, etc. Fletcher meets them and bar- 
gains for their produce, then calls:) 

FLETCHER 

Cheer up, everybody ! Here is something better than pills — venison hams at 
twelve and a half cents apiece, turkeys at the same price and all the bear's meat 
3-ou can eat. {He distributes supplies.) 

INDIANA 

(Pointing to an ox-cart coming from the cast.) And here comes a messenger 
from Cincinnati bringing you fresh supplies and news from the world outside. 

FLETCHER 
Hurry up, Uncle Johnny Hager — we're out of groceries and havn't heard the 
news for weeks. What's been going on? 

HAGER 

I got President Monroe's message here — only ten weeks old. 

FLETCHER 

How long have you been on the road from Cincinnati? 

HAGER 
'Bout a month — mighty quick trip over them stumps. 

DR. COE 

Did you bring plenty of calomel and opium? 

HAGER 
Plenty of everything. 

BLAKE 
We ought to be truly grateful for all these good things. Let's celebrate 'em 
with a dance. Alec Russell, get your fiddle 1 

■RUSSELL 
Right you are, Mr. Blake! {With a preliminary flourish.) Choose your 
partners ! 

NOWLAND 
Mrs. Wyant, may I have the honor? 

MRS. WYANT 
Certainly, Mr. Nowland. {Russell strikes into a lively reel and everybody 
joins in the dance -with joyous abandon. John Wyant comes up from below and, 
striding to Russell, shouts:) 

JOHN WYANT 
Shut off that fiddle and stop the dance! {The dance stops and the dancers 
look at him amazed.) Look here. Mat Nowland, as far as I and my wife are 
concerned, we are able to do our own dancing. It would look better for every 

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man to dance with his own wife. Those of you who are so unfortunate as to 
have none can dance with the gals. (Chorus of "ohs!" and laughter as he goes 
and takes Mrs. Wyaut. There are other exchanges of partners.) 

WYANT 
Now you can go ahead, Russell. {The reel is continued to a swift finish.) 

JEREMIAH JOHNSON : 

I say, Mr. Wyant ! 



WYANT 



What is it, Jerry Johnson? 



JOHNSON 
I haven't any wife of my own to dance with, so I'm minded to make mine the 
first wedding in the settlement — and Aliss Jane Reagan here is willing. What shall 
I do about it? 

WYANT 
Go get a license and marry her, Jerry Johnson. 

JOHNSON 

Where'll I go get it? 

WYANT 

(Pointing) Connersville — county seat, you know. 

JOHNSON 
But its sixty miles through the woods and swamps and I haven't any horse. 

WYANT 
Walk it, Jerry — walk it! Faint heart never won fair lady. (Pushing him off 
the stage.) Don't be so squeamish about a little stroll! (Johnson starts off east- 
ward at a sunngitig gait— followed by "Mud." Lights dimmed.) 

BLAKE 
Hear ye! Hear ye! Time for everybody to turn in and get some sleep. To 
morrow is Sunday and Elder McClung will preach to us here in the Governor's 
Circle grove. We want this to be a religious and moral community above every- 
thing else. So, good night everybody! (All leave the stage and start west in 
neighborly chat when they are met by the Tozvn Crier zvho is ringing a bell and 
calling "Child lost! Child lost! Widow Smith's child lost! Child born! Child 
born! First white child born on the Donation. Son of Robert Harding— name 
Mordecai Harding!" The pioneers crozvd about him with eager inquiries. At 
this moment the vociferous blowing of an old-fashioned dinner horn is heard 
from the cast and a horseman zcilh stuffed saddle bags ciniters across the arena 
from "Connersz^lle.'') 

BLAKE 
Three cheers for Postmaster Drake ! ( 77u'_v are given as he distributes n:afti.^ 
and then all go out west.) 



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THE PRIMITIVE LIFE 

(Interlude music: A medley of old-fashioned airs.) 

(The settlers come back from the ivest in larger numbers and much morr 
pretentious dress. Some mount the stage while others busy themselves about tht 
cabin in front of which a sign has been put up heralding: "The Rosebush Tavern^, 
by THOMAS CARTER, Entertainment for Man and Beast." 

INDIANA 

Greetings, my daug^hter ! You have thriven mightily during these first years 
of trial, and the time has now come to make you my capital in fact as well as- 
in name. My legislators shall forthwi-th transfer their sessions from Cori'don to- 
your borders and my treasurer, Samuel Merrill, comes yonder with my records ancS 
other property, bringing with him my printer, John Douglass, and their families. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
They shall be made welcome and have quarters in my new Court House untiT 
j'our State House can be built. (From the eastern entrance comes a cavalcade of 
four-horse wagons, with horseback riders alongside, all the horses wearing bells. 
The wheels and wagons are mud smeared and MUD frisks about them, doing his 
worst to impede their progress. Calvin Fletcher mounts the stage and calls:) 

FLETCHER 
Turn out, everybody ! Here comes Sam Merrill with the State's pocketbook. 
(The stage is thronged and joyous greetings are shouted) Hello, Sam Merrill I 
Did you have much trouble getting up through the State? 

MERRILL 
Yes, I did. (Indicating MUD who is cavorting alongside.) Thanks to this 
fellow, I nearly got down through the State several times. 

FLETCHER 
How long have you been on the road? 

MERRILL 
Made the 160 miles in two weeks. Pity I couldn't have waited until Governor 
Ray gets his railroads rufining. You know he predicts that some day Indianapolis 
will be a great railroad center, with lines in every direction like the spokes of a 
wheel. 

FLETCHER • 

Does he intend to move here soon ? 

MERRILL 
I heard one of his friends in the Legislature say they plan to build him a 
$4,000 mansion in the center of the Circle and enclose it with "an elegant and 
tasteful rail fence." 

FLETCHER 
What is he going to do with those white scoundrels we convicted for the mur- 
der of that camp of Indians up northeast of here? 

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MERRILL 
Oh, he'll let Hudson, Bridge and Sawyer hang — ^but he may pardon young 
Bridge. 

FLETCHER 
Yes, the lad was misled, and Charley Test made a strong plea for mercy. 

MERRILL 
I can see Ray mount the scaffold and declare, in that pompous way of his : 
(mimicking) "No power on earth now remains but that of the Almighty and the 
Executive of Indiana to save your life. I pardon you." 

FLETCHER 
Well, it will be the first time in the history of America that a white man has 
ever been hanged for killing an Indian, but every white settlement in Indiana will 
be the safer for it. 

MERRILL 

Amen to that! But I must get on to the Court House and unload this State 
plunder. . _^ 

FLETCHER 

Look out for the stumps on Washington street, and -come and stay with us 
until you can build. I'm living in Mr. Blake's house and he says he'll make room 
for you someway. (The cavalcade, still escorted by MUD, moves on and exits 
by zvesi entrance.) 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, both elderly and both pronounced in attire, accompanied 
by a colored satellite carrying their voluminous carpet bags and a violin case, 
dismount from an ancient vehicle driven in from the east and come upon the stage. 

MR. SMITH 
(Addressing Fletcher) Can you inform me, sir, where I shall find the manager 
of your Indianapolis theatre? 

FLETCHER 
I regret to say Indianapolis has no theatre — as yet. 

MR. SMITH 
But you must have some hall or public place where theatrical performances 
can be given ? Mrs. Smith and I have come all the way from New York to favor 
your populace. We might even make use of the courtyard of an inn — Shakes- 
peare did. 

• FLETCHER 

The Rosebush Tavern here hasn't any courtyard, but meetings are sometimes 
held there. (Calling) Carter! Oh, Carter! (Thomas Carter conies out of the 
Rosebush.) Tom, here are some play actors who want to perform in your public 
room — Mr. and Mrs. Smith. 

CARTER 

(Coming upon the stage and regarding the Smiths with suspicion.) Play 
actors, hey? I don't know about that. We are a strictly moral community here. 
What kind of play-acting do you do? 

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SMITH 
(Glibly) Our repertoire is very extensive — extending all the way from "Ham- 
let" to "Oh, What a Snowstorm in May and June." We plan to give you our 
version of "The Jealous Lovers" and Mrs. Smith will perform the phemomenal 
feat of singing "The Star-spangled Banner" while she dances a hornpipe blind- 
folded amongst eggs. Everything strictly moral. (Mrs. Smith dances a step or 
two in demonstration.) 

CARTER 
You'd better leave out the eggs. They cost six cents a dozen and are hard to 
get — even at that price. Do you have any music? 

SMITH 
(Indicating Jiis satellite) Yes, we bring our own orchestra. 

CARTER 
Is that a fiddle he's got there? I don't allow fiddle music — its a snare of the 
devil. 

SMITH 
Oh, dear no — that's a violin. ' 

CARTER 
Can he play hymn tunes? That's tlie only kind I allow in my tavern. 

SMITH 
Hymn tunes are his specialty. Darius, give Mr. Carter a sample of your hymn 
tunes! (Darius takes out his violin and plays a lugubrious air. concluding with 
a sly bar or two of "The Fisher's Hornpipe.") 

CARTER 
We-1-1, maybe that'll pass as a hymn tune. 

SMITH 
You have a newspaper here? I shall want to do some advertising. i 

CARTER ; 

Yes, two of 'em, Gazette and Western Censor. ! 

SMITH 

Which is the better? 

CARTER 
Both' splendid newspapers, sir. The Gazette is the older — they had to print it 
with tar at first. 

SMITH 
Then I shall patronize the Gazette. I don't mind tar so long as it isn't 
mixed with feathers, and I don't like the Censor's name. Can you give us a room? 

CARTER 
I can give you a bed — that's all anybody gets. Go right in and make yourself 
at home I (Exeunt Smiths.) 

PATSY CHINN 
Oh, Mr. Carter, may I see you a moment? i 

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CARTER . / 

Surely, P^tsy Chinn — what is it? / 

PATSY 
You know Uriah Gates and I are to be married next week and our cabin is 
so very small that I'd like to have the ceremony at the Rosebush, so all my friends 
can come to it. 

CARTER 
Fine, Patsy, fine ! Come right along and we'll get you up a big dinner — 
venison and turkeys, pumpkin pies and maple sugar for the coffee. 

PATSY 
(Bashfully.) But you know, Mr. Carter, I have to dress for it. Have you any 
Toom where I can dress? 

CARTER 
{Puzzled.) Well, let me see — let me see! (Remembering.) Why, of course, 
Patsy! You can dress in the smoke-house — that's handy. 

PATSY 

(Laughing.) Splendid — if you'll let the smudge out so they won't think I've 
&een crying. 

CARTER 

(Gallantly.) It'll be the boys who will do the crying. Patsy. 



WHY IS A RIVER? 

(Interlude Music.) 

Dillingham Dorsey, an old-fashioned school teacher, comes upon the stage, a 
bell in one hand and a bundle of szvitches in the other, zvhile rude benches and a 
high desk are passed up from bclozv. He rings his bell first on one side, then on 
the other, calling, "Books, books, books!" School children of all ages bring their 
hooks and take their places on the benches, the girls on one side, the boys on the 
other, talking and laughing together. 

DORSEY 
(Taking his place behind the desk and whacking it sternly with a huge ruler.) 
Silence ! (Every voice is hushed. He lays the switches ostentatiously across the 
desk top.) I trust I shall have no occasion to use these today nor (taking out a 
iarge pocket knife, opening it and sticking the point into the desk) do I wish to 
be obliged to throw my knife at any pupil. But I am here to enforce obedience — 
that is your first lesson in this school, and the one liardest for some of you to 
learn. (A little girl in the front row begins to cry.) Why, Susannah, what's 
-the matter? 

SUSANNAH 
(Sobbing.) I don't want to be whipped. 

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DORSEY 
(Patting her head zvith reassuring kindliness.) No, sweetheart, I am not 
^oing to whip you. 

SUSANNAH 
Nor cut me with your knife? 

DORSEY 

Never in the world, darling — that's for the bad boys, the big, bad boys. {Re- 
turning to his desk and silencing the hum of comment mith another whack of 
the ruler.) Say out your books! (At once all the pupils begin to study their 
lessons at the tops of their voices, spelling words, repeating arithmetic tables, 
geography locations, etc., in a conglomerate din. Another crash of the ruler 
brings dead silence once more.) The a-b-c class will recite. (The little tots come 
forward and form a row before him.) Now, all together! (They sing in unison:) 

B-a ba, b-e be, b-i, bi, b-o bo, b-u bu ; 

D-a da, d-e de, d-i di, d-o do, d-u du ; 

F-a fa, f-e fe, f-i fi, f-o fo, f-u fu ; 

G-a ga, g-e ge, g-i gi, g-o go, g-u gu. 
Very good indeed. First class in arithmetic! (Older pupils take the places 
<£?/ the tots.) Give me the multiplication table, beginning with five times five I 
{The class sings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle":) 

Five times five is twenty-five 
And five times six is thirty. 
Five times seven is thirty-five, 
And five times eight is for-ty. 

Five times nine is forty-five, 
And five times ten is fifty. 
Five times 'leven is fifty-five, 
And five times twelve is sixty. 

DORSEY 

William, say the days of the month ! 

WILLIAM 
Thirty days hath September, 
April, June and November ; 
All the rest have thirty-one. 
Except the second month alone, 
To which we twenty-eight assign 
Till leap year gives it (hesitates) — thirty-nine. 

DORSEY 

Thirty-nine, eh, William! What does the class say? 

CLASS 
(In triumphant and derisive chorus.) 'Till leap year gives it twenty-nine 1 

DORSEY 
(Going to his desk and taking out a dunce cap which he puts upon William's 
head.) You may stand over there and wear this for twenty-nine minutes as a 

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little reminder of leap year. (Another boy gives IVilliam a sly dig in the ribs.y 
Class in geography. (Another class comes fonvard.) Sing the capitals! (The 
class chants:) 

State of Maine, Augusta, on the Kenebec River; 

New Hampshire, Concord, on the Merrimac River; 

Vermont, Montpelier, on the Onion River ; 

Massachusetts, Boston, on the Atlantic Ocean. 

DORSEY 

(Crashing the ruler.) Now give me j^our own State! (Silence) 

NATHANIEL 
We haven't had Indiana yet, teacher. 

DORSEY 
But you know the capital, don't you? (No reply.) What city is this? 

CLASS 
Indianapolis. 

DORSEY 
Now the river? (No reply.) Nathaniel, what stream do you live on? 

NATHANIEL 
(Promptly.) Pogue's Run. (The school titters.) 

DORSEY 
(Carefully selecting a large smitch from his bundle) Nathaniel, you may 
stay in after school and I will endeavor to refresh your memory as to local topo- 
graphy. 

NATHANIEL 
(Eagerly.) Oh, teacher, I remember now! I heard my pappy say a big steam- 
boat is coming up White River. 

DORSEY 
George Owings, is that right? 

GEORGE 
(Pi'omplly.) No, sir, it's a d— d lie — no steamboat can come up White River. 

DORSEY 

(Sternly.) Come, here, George! (George docs so zcith extreme reluctance.) 
Kneel down here before me! (George kneels and Dorsey takes the pocket knife 
from his desk.) George. I have warned you repeatedly against swearing, and whip- 
pings seem useless to break you of the habit. You know I told you the next 
time I would slit j^our tongue for it. Now, stick out your tongue! (George 
does so in an agony of fear zvhile Dorsey proceeds to wliet the knife on his boot.) 
I am sorry to have to do this, George, but it won't do to let you grow up this 
way — keep your tongue out ! — it would be a disgrace to my school and to your 
parents— PUT OUT YOUR TONGUE! (Testing the knife edge.) But if I 
SHOULD try you once more, do you think you would ever swear again? 

GEORGE 
(Sobbing.) No, no, no — I'll be d — d if I would! 

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At this moment a boy comes running from the zvest screaming, "Steamboat's 
a-comin' ! Steamboat's a-comin' 1 Steamboat's a-comin' up the river !" Cannon 
shots are heard, the hiss of escaping steam and the ringing of a boat's bell, with 
much shouting and general din. Then General Robert Hanna, and several of the 
boat's officers, enter from the west and are warmly greeted by citizens zvho go for- 
zvard and escort the new-comers to the stage, now vacated by the children zvho 
scamper off zuestward to see the boat, spectators quickly gathering about below. 

BLAKE 

(Rapping.) The meeting will come to order. General Hanna, it affords me 
great satisfaction, to welcome you back to Indianapolis with the steamboat bearing 
your honored name. I will call upon Governor Noble to express our sense of the 
obligation this city owes you. ._, ^, 

NOBLE 

Your arrival here from Cincinnati by steamboat. General Hanna, should be 
viewed by the citizens of the White River country and of the State as a proud 
triumph for you personally and a fair and unanswerable demonstration that our 
beautiful river is susceptible of safe navigation for steam vessels. You have fairly 
won the $200 reward I offered for such an achievement. We are already deeply 
indebted to 30U for pushing forward the construction of .the National Road to this 
point. I hold here a memorandum showing that our population already exceeds 
a thousand souls and that in one year we have imported TEN THOUSAND DOL- 
LARS worth of goods, including 76 kegs of tobacco, 200 barrels of flour, 100 kegs 
of powder, 4,500 pounds of spun yarn and 213 barrels of whiskey. In conclusion, 
General, I am authorized to invite you and your associates to be the guests of honor 
at our public dinner in celebration of the Fourth of July, and to witness the 
parade of the united Sunday schools of our three churches in honor of this event. 

HANNA 

I thank you. Governor Noble, and the citizens of Indianapolis for this appre- 
ciation. But I fear you exaggerate the importance of our trip, made merely to 
tow up a barge loaded with bridge materials for the National Road. I am less 
sanguine than 3'ou seem about the navigation of Whi^e River, perhaps because we 
ran into a tree on the bank just now and knocked down our pilot house and 
chimneys. I regret that we shall be unable to attend your Fourth of July dinner. 
The river is falling and we shall start back as soon as we can unload. But I 
congratulate you upon the combination of religion and patriotism indicated by your 
Sunday school parade. 

Front the zvest is heard martial music, and the Sunday school procession enters 
and marches around the arena, circling the stage, beside zvhicli it rests. Its for- 
mation is as follows: (1) A small cannon drawn by soldiers in' uniform; (2) 
women teachers with flag ; (3) girl scholars, smallest in front, and grading back , 
all in gala dress; (4) tnusic; (5) men teachers zvith flag; (6) male scholars, graded 
back; (7) clergymen, reader and orator; (8) superintendents; (9) citizens, four 
ohredst. They sing as they march, "Hail Cnliimhio" "Star-Spangled Banner" etc. 
Arrived at the stage they call in unison: 

"Blake, Blake, Superintendent Blake! 
You shall be our marshal, you the lead shall take." 

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FLETCHER 

That means you, Mr. Blake. 

BLAKE 
(Calling down.) I'm coming. But Mr. Fletcher here promised you a toast. 



Hold him to it! 

Toast, toast, toast ! 



SCHOLARS 



FLETCHER 

All right, then here's your toast : "Indianapolis, may it not prove itself un- 
worthy the honor the State has conferred upon it by making it her seat of govern- 
ment." {Everybody applauds; Blake takes position at the head of the procession; 
the others fall in behind; the music starts again and the march is continued out 
through the eastern exit, Gen. Hanna and his party returning westward. 



ON MUSTER DAY 

(Interlude music — military march.) 

INDIANA 

Keeper of my chosen center, 
Days of danger, lurking foemen, 
Call your young men to be ready 
For your settlement's protection. 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Isolated, standing lonely, 

Far from help when help is needed, 
; All my citizens are soldiers : 

I Every plowboy knows his rifle. 

Lieut. Samuel Merrill enters west leading in an awkward squad which he 
marches to the stage while a crozvd gathers and watches the drill with friendly 
advice to the participants. Some of the militia-men have nondescript uniforms 
while others are in careless civilian dress. Some are armed with muskets and 
squirrel rifles; others carry hoe-handles, cornstalks, etc. 

MERRILL 
Attention, company! (The squad forms in ragged double file.) Gentlemen, 
your appearance is not soldierly. I see here veterans of the Black Hawk War, 
members of "the Bloody Three Hundred," who marched to Chicago and then 
marched back again, armed with hoe-handles and cornstalks and dressed for a 
'coon hunt. 

A MILITIAAIAN 
Say, Lieut. Merrill, dad took my gun this mornin' to get a b'ar. But you-all 
know I can split a bullet on my knife blade. 

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MERRILL 
Quite right, Nick, I've seen you shoot, but you're not so strong on tactics, so 
I'll have to give you some guard duty with that cornstalk. (Derisive laughter.) 

KATE MERRILL 
(A child of ten.) Don't punish him, papa — please ! He'll bring his gun next 
time. 

MERRILL 

Must have discipline, Kate. (He whispers to her.) Nick, you may guard the 
northeast corner of the drill field until relieved ! (Nick takes position crestfallen 
amid jeers.) Now, all you in uniforms take the front rank I (Men exchange 
places.) Pass guns to the front rank, cornstalks to the rear! (Exchange is made.) 
This is an occasion dedicated to Mars, not to Ceres. Now, if you are ready, 
shoulder arms! (He puts the squad through various drill evolutions which it 
executes unth viuch blundering. At the first pause little Kate goes timidly to 
her father and points to Nick. He nods and she runs and whispers to Nick 
who resumes his place in the rear rank.) 

Col. Alexander Russell on horseback gallops in from the east. He wears a 
showy militia uniform with brilliant epaulets; in liis hat a white plume tipped 
with red; he waves a big sword in giving orders. He is followed in from the east 
by the Marion Guards (known as "the Graybacks") a company commanded by 
Capt. Thomas A. Morris. The men are middle-aged, dressed in a handsome 
uniform of gray with black velvet facings, tall leather caps with brass trimmings 
and black pompons. They are armed with muskets having bayonets and march 
to the music of a brass band. 

RUSSELL 
(Wheeling to face them.) Halt your command here, Capt. Morris, and report 
to me at headquarters! (Dashes on to the stage.) Dismiss your drill squad, Capt. 
Merrill, and remain here as my aide-de-camp. (Gallops on to the west entrance 
where the Marion Riflemen (known as "the Arabs") enter to the music of fife 
and drum, led by Capt. Lew Wallace. They are boyish in age, uniformed in yellow- 
fringed blue hunting shirts, with trousers similarly adorned, atid are armed with 
carbines.) Capt. Wallace, halt your command here and report to me at head- 
quarters! (He dashes back to the stage zvhere he is promptly joined by Morris and 
Wallace.) Capt. Morris, you will begin the sham battle by deploying your command 
from Delaware street into Washington and move to attack in column of sections, 
firing by volleys. Capt. Wallace, you will bring your troops into Washington from 
Meridian street and fight them lying down, backwoods fashion, firing at will. 
The Guards will continue to advance and when I raise my hat jou will retreat 
in good order and cease firing as you turn back into Meridian. Fire low and d» 
rot let your men get out of hand. Yon both tlnderstand? 



Yes, Colonel. 

Certainly, Colonel Russell. 



MORRIS 
W.^LLACE 
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RUSSELL 

I will review both companies after the battle. Begin when I raise my sword ! 
{Both captains salute and hiivry back to their companies. Col. Russell gives the 
signal and the Grays advance and begin firing by volleys at the word, their band 
playing vociferously. There is much cheering and waving of handkerchiefs by the 
spectators on mid (irouiid the stage. The Arabs rush forward, lie down and fire, then 
rush forward uLoiu. These tactics soon bring the two sides into clash, and Col. 
Russell waves I'otli his hat and sword frantically and shouts "Cease firing! Retreat! 
Retreat! but to no purpose. Nor can Wallace restrain his men. They dash in 
among the Grays, breaking up their formation, taking prisoners and putting the 
others to flight, while Russell continues to shout unheeded orders and the specta- 
tors yell their laughter and applause. As the melee subsides Wallace approaches 
Russell and salutes.) 

WALLACE 

Awfully sorry, Colonel, but I just couldn't hold 'em. You see the Grays have 
been poking a good deal of fun at 'em. Will you review us? 

RUSSELL 

No, you don't deserve it. Release your prisoners and dismiss your men. If 
we do have war with Mexico you young scamps may find real fighting not so funny. 

WALLACE 
Try us, Colonel ! Try us ! 

BLAKE 
Oyez, oyez, oyez ! The next event in these tumultuous proceedings will be a 
quarter race between Danny Red and Ditch Finder. Clear the track! (^The 
spectators and the militiamen, once more in fraternal accord, withdrazu to the 
center of the arena and the race is run with much encouragement from the specta- 
tors. This is followed by foot races, a tug of war, wrestling, a greased pig chase, 
horse-shoe throwing, etc., various events taking place at the same time in different 
parts of the arena.) 

BLAKE 

The next event will be a competitive run by the volunteer fire companies, the 
Invincibles with their hand-brake engine "Victory," against the Reliefs with their 
end-brake engine "Good Intent." The race will start when the Chief Fireward 
drops his pole. Clear the track! {The rival companies appear at the west end 
with their engines, fire buckets, etc., the captains with trumpets and helmets, the 
men in ordinary dress. The Chief Fireward takes his place on the stage with his 
badge of office, a red pole some five feet long. The Invincibles sing:) 
Throw, "Victory," throw ! 
Man Haugh is our president. 
He makes us wax the "Good Intent ;" 
Throw, /'Victory," throw ! 
(To which the Reliefs yell reply.) "No Wooden Shoes ever get there ahead 
of the Shanghais." 

THE FIREWARD 
(Raising his pole.) Ready! (Drops it.) Go! (The two companies race around 

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the arena in opposite directions, returning to their starting point when the Fireward 
announces the victor.) 

BLAKE 
Friends and fellow citizens: Word has just reached me that Congress and 
President Polk have declared a state of war with Mexico. Governor Whitcomb 
has called for three regiments of infantry. What are we going to do about it? 

WALLACE 
I'll tell you what we are going to do about it. We're going to plant the Star- 
spangled Banner on the lialls of the Montezumas. Come on, you Graybacks and 
Arabs ! Here's our chance to have some real fun. For Mexico ! Fall in ! (He 
rushes dotvn from the stage, grabs a flag and with fife and drum accompaniment, 
starts a quick march eastward, the militiamen of both companies mixed together 
falling in behind him while the crowd cheers.) 

AN OUTLET AT LAST 

{Brief Interlude Music.) 

INDIANA 
Bravely you have borne, my daughter, 
] Loneliness and exile weary; 

Hope deferred and dreams which faded. 
Now a line of gleaming iron 
Links you henceforth to all peoples ! 

INDIANAPOLIS 

So, indeed, oh, Indiana, 

Shall you truly feel my heart throbs 

Sending back to all your members 

Life-blood quickened to your service ! 
A newsboy runs in crying: "Here's your Journal! Here's your Sentinel! 
All about opening of Madison Railroad ! First train coming today I Journal, Sen- 
tinel!" He sells his papers among the crozvd. Calvin Fletcher, Samuel Merrill and 
Hervcy Bates come upon the stage. 

FLETCHER 
This is a great day for Indianapolis, Merrill, this first of October, 1847. Your 
Madison Railroad will be the salvation of the town and make all you people who 
have built it rich, besides. 

MERRILL 
I hope so. It has cost enough to put it through since the State turned the 
work over to us. 

FLETCHER 
But none of the other seven roads chartered by the Legislature fifteen years 
ago have come througli. How about the Harrison line, Mr. Bates? 

BATES 
Oh, the panic of '37 laid us all out. You know even the State Bank had to 

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suspend specie payments for a while. As its first president I hope you and your 
successors in that office may never have the trouble we did to keep afloat. But 
your brother, Stoughton — great banker that he is — helped us weather the storm. 

FLETCHER 
But you did keep it going — God bless you, Bates ! — and it proved a tower 
■of refuge in those days of peril. 

MERRILL 

Will your new city government take part in today's celebration? 

BATES 
Yes, Mayor Henderson and Councilmen Rooker, Tutewiler, Gates and King 
liave been preparing for it. 

FLETCHER 

Both Governor Whitcomb and the Rev. Henry Beecher will speak and I hear 
the people for miles around are coming in. Most of them never saw a locomotive. 
Besides, there is a circus in town. 

MERRILL 

Well. I have decided to grant the request for excursion rates for a week so 
everybody may see what a railroad is like. 

BATES 

Pity your station had to be located so far from the business district. South 
street is away out of town. 

MERRILL 

Oh, we'll have a town of our own down here before you know it. Look at 
the houses springing up around here ! 

FLETCHER 

Will your excursion trains get in on time? 

MERRILL 

The last rail was laid at nine o'clock this morning so they ought to be here 
now pretty soon. (The crowd around the stage has been growing rapidly, and 
various vehicles have come in as from the country and taken positions about the 
stage and along an open passage way suggesting the railway track extending from 
the eastern entrance to the stage. Now from the west comes the procession of 
celebrants, officials in carriages, mounted volunteers, artillerymen with gun, the two 
volunteer fire companies, and circus performers and band playing circus music.) 

RING MASTER 
Ladies and gents: While we are waiting for the arrival of the train the im- 
mortal Edward Kendall, the Magic Bugler of Spaulding's North American Circus, 
will favor you with a brief solo upon the magic silver bugle with which he will 
entrance our audience tonight. {Which the immortal Edward, in gorgeous uni- 
form, proceeds to do. Then a cannon booms without; distant cheering is heard, 
replied to by the crowd along the track; locomotive bells clang and steam hisses; 
spectators exclaim: "Here she comes! That's the bullgine! Did you ever see 
the like? TWENTY miles an hour." (One spectator darts away to the west fol- 
lowed by a call:) "Come back here. Dave! The bullgine won't hurt you." (to 

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which "Dave" hurls back :) "No sir ; I'm afeared the doggone thing may blow up."' 
{Then croit'ds of the excursionists come pouring in at the east entrance, many 
carrying carpet-bags, parcels, -araps, etc., come through the passage way and 
surround the stage. They are eagerly questioned:) "Does it make you dizzy? 
How fast does she go? Was you scared?" 

MERRILL 

(Shouting.) Order! Order! Let us have order, friends! Governor Whit- 
comb will address you. 

WHITCOMB 
Ladies and gentlemen: This is a momentous occasion for the new city of In- 
dianapolis, for the great State of Indiana. We meet here to celebrate — (a voice: 
"You're right, Governor, and we're going to celebrate) — to celebrate, I say, the- 
opening of a highway whereby we may travel to the uttermost parts of the earth. 
(Interruption: "When do we start?") These iron rails form the tendrils whereby 
we shall be more closely bound to the body politic. (Interruption: "Never mind 
politics. Governor — what 're we going to get for our wheat?") I don't know, 
sir. just how much you will get for your wheat, but a farmer friend of mine who- 
has been getting forty cents proposes to hold for ninety now that he can ship 
to the Ohio River. To the citizens of the State capital the new road offers in- 
calculable possibilities. We now boast of a population of 6,000. (Interruption: 
"All here. Governor!") Shall we not double it in the ne.xt ten years? (Inter- 
ruption: "How about that excursion to Greenwood?") My friends, we are alt 
in too happy a mood for speech making, but I beg you to listen to a few words 
from the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who is leaving us today for a larger sphere 
of action in the city of Brookhn. (Applause.) 

BEECHER 

Friends and fellow citizens : My heart is very full today, too full for much 
speech. For these several years I have lived here among you, a sharer of your 
joys and sorrows. I have fought temporal fires with your volunteers (cheers from 
the fire companies) and fought for you against the fire eternal. I have been with 
you when times were hard and the train which comes to herald your prosperity 
will carry me away leaving a thousand good wishes for you who remain. God 
bless you all! (Cheers.) 

MERRILL 
Excursion trains for Greenwood and Franklin will leave the depet at once. 
(The crowd makes a tumultuous rush for the eastern e.vit, to the clang of locomo- 
tive bells. Uncle Tom Magruder, an aged negro, now comes to Mr. Beecher.) 

UNCLE TOM 
Massa Beecher. please, sir, I's mons'tous sorry to see you goin' away. You 
an' you-all's sister. Missis Stowe, has been mighty good to to we-uns an' I's gittin*" 
so ole I's feared I'll never see j-ou-all no mo'. 

BEECHER 
(His hands on Uncle Tom's shoulders.) Maybe not. Uncle Tom— maybe not— 
until we meet up yonder! But remember this: Uncle Tom Magruder will always 
hold a warm place in Mrs. Stowe's heart and in mine, and Uncle Tom's cabin will 

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be for us both a sacred spot — a spot where was kindled the torch that may light 
your race to liberty. (Turning.) Where are those two boys who are going with 
me on their way to Bethany College, Johnny New and Berry Sulgrove? I musn't 
lose those boys — they'll both be heard from one of these days. (The boys come 
forward.) Come on, boys, we mustn't let the "bulgine" get away without us. 
(Leads them off eastivard. his arms about their shoulders.) 



THE IXEMTABLE CONFLICT 

(Interlude Music.) 

INDIANA 
Shadows gather. In my free land 
No man holds a human chattel ; 
Yet my borders are invaded 

By the hunters ; sanctuary ' \ 

I must denj' to the fleeing — 
Even my own blacks are taken ! 
On MY brow the brand of Cain is I 

INDIANAPOLIS 

In rebellion are my people 

'Gainst this cruel law which binds them. 

Not in name alone a "Freeman" 

Is this man now as a slave claimed. 

If it MUST be, let the clash come — 

How shall Bondage mate with Freedom? 
(A crowd gathers about the stage which is taken by a group including John 
L. Ketcham, John Coburn, Cahnn Fletcher, Geo. W. Julian, Kev. S. T. Gillet 
several Southern planters and John Freeman, a negro,) 

KETCHAM 
Gentlemen, we meet here tonight to take action regarding the arrest and im- 
prisonment of John Freeman, one of our colored citizens, under the Fugitive Slave 
Law. The fact that he has just been discharged does not free us from the duty of 
voicing the sentiments of tlTJs community. Shall we ask the Rev. Mr. Gillet to 
preside? 

GILLET 
My friends, two months ago a man named Pleasant Ellington, claiming to be a 
Missouri preacher, came here and had John Freeman, a highly respected colored 
citizen who has lived here for nine years and accumulated a handsome little prop- 
erty, arrested as a fugitive slave. (A voice: "Freeman is all zvhite but his skin.") 
He refused ample bail offered by one hundred of our leading citizens and had 
Freeman stripped and searched for marks which he declared established his owner- 
ship. Aleanwhile Freeman's counsel, John Coburn and John L. Ketcham, found 
in Canada the man who had actually been Ellington's slave and induced these 
gentlemen here who had known Freeman in Georgia and Kentucky to come and 
testify in his behalf. I hear that Ellington has sneaked out of town to escape 

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a suit for false imprisonment. (A voice: "He ought to be tarred and feathered" 
— applause.) Mr. Fletcher has a letter from Henry Ward Beecher on the subject. 
{Voice: "Good for Beecher") 

FLETCHER 
Mr. Beecher writes : "It is said that to represent such scenes as Uncle Tom's 
separation from his family is a slander. Yet here is a preacher of the gospel making 
a pilgrimage of half-a-thousand miles to find and arrest a member of a Chris- 
tian church in a free State and drag him into slavery. Nor is this man any 
worse than the laws allow. To violate every sentiment of humanity, outrage 
the feelings of a whole community, crush an innocent and helpless family, reduce 
a citizen of proved integrity to the level of a brute, carry him to the shambles — 
all this may be done by the laws and under the direction of a magistrate. It will 
not forever be thus. There is an unperverted heart. There is a Judge above 
corruption. There are laws neither framed in deceit nor red-mouthed with the 
blood of the innocent. Has not the shame of our nakedness appeared long enough?" 
(A roar of applause and cries of "Julian," "Julian," "Julian!") 

JULIAN 
No man within sound of my voice but knows where I stand on this Fugitive 
Slave Law, the most atrocious of all the compromise measures intended to pla- 
cate the upholders of human slavery. I join heartily in commending the humane 
and magnanimous spirit of these Southern gentlemen who have come to the 
rescue of a man unjustly accused. Their action stands in dramatic contrast with 
that of the Northern Doughfaces and Flunkeys who made haste to serve the per- 
jured villians who undertook to kidnap a citizen of the State under the forms of 
an infamous law. (Voices: "Right. Julian! Right!") The saddest pages of our 
history will be those relating the careful and studious tenderness of our Northern 
lawmakers towards American slaverj', an institution embodying the transmitted 
vices and diabolisms of two .hundred years. The South inherited slavery — the 
North is the real culprit in the guilt of slave aggrandizement! (Frantic ap- 
plause.) 

COBURN 

Mr. Chairman: I have here some resolutions expressing our joy over the 
release of Freeman and our commendation of the noble and generous action of 
these gentlemen from the South. 

A man in the crowd shouts: "Ellington is still in tozcn. I knozc zvhere to 
get him." Another man: "I know where there is a fence rail." A third: "Let's 
give him a ride out of tozvn!" With a roar of approval the crowd rushes off 
and out. 

(Interlude music) 

From the east enters a torchlight procession of "JVide Azvakes." men zvear- 
ing black oil-cloth caps and capes, carrying szvinging torches and marching to the 
tap of the drum. They carry banners inscribed "Honest Old Abe," "The Illinois 
Rail-splitter," "Free Soil Forever," and precede a "fandango" wagon drawn by 
many spans of decorated horses and full of girls zvho zvave hand flags and sing 
campaign songs as the procession circles the arena. 

As it disappears a carriage is driven in frmn the zcest containing .Ibrahani 

4.) 



Lincoln and Governor Oliver P. Morton. Voices from the crowd gathered about 
the stage : "There comes Lincoln ! Lincoln and Morton ! Hurrah for Old Abe !" 
The crowd tries to mount the stage hut is withheld by a squad of soldiers with 
fixed bayonets. Hervey Bates, John Coburn, Calvin Fletcher and Lew Wallace 
appear and Bates addresses the crowds 

BATES 
Let us have order, friends. Mr. Lincoln will speak from the balcony of the 
Bates House. You can all see and hear him from, Washington street. (The 
crowd reforms on the south side of the stage. Li)icohi and Morton cross the 
appear and Bates addresses the eroicd: 

MORTON 
Mr. Lincoln, on behalf of the people of Indiana, I bid you welcome as the 
chief magistrate elect of the Republic. This Union has been the idol of our hopes, 
the parent of our prosperity, our shield and protection abroad and our title to 
the respect and consideration of the world. May it be preserved, is the prayer 
of every patriotic heart in Indiana, and that it SHALL BE, the xletermination ! 
(Applause.) 

LINCOLN 
Governor Morton and fellow-citizens of Indiana : I will only say that to 
the salvation of this Union there needs but one single thing — the hearts of a 
people like yours. (Applause.) "The gates of hell can not prevail against them." 
(Applause.) I wish you to remember, now and forever, that it is j^our business 
and not mine ; that if the Union of these States and the liberties of this people 
shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a 
great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States and to 
their posterity in all coming time. (Great applause.) I appeal to you again to 
bear in mind constantly that with YOU, and not with politicians, not with presi- 
dents, not with ofifice-seekers, but with you is the question : Shall the Union and 
shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generations? (Wild 
end prolonged cheering. Lincoln and Morton drive out and a group of colored 
jubilee singers take the stage and sing "Nelly Gray" and "Ole Shady.") 



THE CALL TO ARMS 

INDIANA 

From the Southland roars a cannon : 
Helmeted Secession's crest is ; 
No more may we wait or palter — 
God of Battles, we are ready! 

INDIANAPOLIS 

Ready, Indiana, ready — 
Not in arms, but resolution ! 
Hither send your gallant farmers 
And to soldiers I will mould them. 

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MRS. CADY 

From the east sounds one tong, dissonant trumpet blast, then the clang of 
■a fire bell rung rapidly. Enter running a newsboy who screams: "Fort Sumter 
fired on! Fort Sumter fired on! Fort Sumter fired on!" A crowd gathers hur- 
riedly, its menacing murmur growing to a roar as Gov. Morton takes the s^ige 
and lifts his hand f^r quiet. 

MORTON 
Men of Indiana, the flag has been fired upon. Fort Sumter, in Charleston 
'harbor, is under bombardment and jMajor Anderson can not hold it long. War 
is upon us. I have sent President Lincoln a telegram offering him ten thousand 
men for the defense of the nation. Have I promised too much for Indiana? 
•{A mighty roar: "No!") We are no longer Republicans or Democrats, but 
Union men. I have made Capt. Lewis Wallace Adjutant-General of the State. 
Our chairman, Col. Ebenezer Dumont, will raise a regiment. Major Jonathan 
Gordon here will organize a flying artillery company. 

GORDON 

Volunteers will find me at my ofifice early Monday morning! {Col. Dumont 
brings Morton a telegram which he tears open and reads.) 

MORTON 

Col. Dumont has just handed me a telegram announcing that Fort Sumter 
has fallen. {The crozvd : Ah-h-h!) Tomorrow will be Sunday, a day for solemn 
reflection, but on Monday morning you will find the recruiting offices open and 
ready. Good night ! ( The crozvd disperses in silence and with bowed heads to 
■dirge music zvhich is continued for a time and then changes to the air of "The 
Battle Cry of Freedom" as a procession of men and boys in civilian dress sweeps 
through the arena singing this song and carrying flags and a banner inscribed: 
*'We are coming Father Abraham, 500,000 Strong.") 

As this procession exits Col. Lezv Wallace leads in the Eleventh Regiment 
to the mtistt of fife and drum. They are in couave tmiforms and form a hollow 
square about the stage zvhere a party of ladies zvith a stand of colors aziKiits Col. 
Wallace. Their leader, Mrs. AMgal A. Cady, addres-^es him: 

Col. Wallace, on behalf of the women of Indiana, I am commissioned to pre- 
sent to the Eleventh Regiment this stand of colors which their own hands have 
fashioned. Our fondest good wishes for the triumph of your great cause go with 
these flags. May they never be lowered in the face of the foe ! 

WALLACE 
{Taking the flags.) Ladies, in accepting this beautiful and inspiring gift. I 
wish to pledge you, for the men of the Eleventh Regiment, that it shall be cherished 
and defended to their latest breatli. Tliey could not do otherwise since they are 
your own husbands, brothers, sons. In the war with Mexico the man who now 
lieads the conspiracy to dishonor and dismember this flag vilified and sought to 
disgrace Indiana soldiers. I promise you that the men who march under these 
colors will rejoice to help cram that foul slander down his arrogant throat. 
{Wheeling suddenly.) Men of the Eleventh Regiment, kneel and raise your right 
hands! {They obey with military precision.) Now. swear to remember Buena 
Vista and Jefferson Davis! {The men zvith one voice: "We szi-ear!") As you 

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were! (They rise,) Now your drill! (They cxecufc I'arious zouave evolutions 
and are led off behind the colors by Col. JVallacc.) 

INDIANA 
(fiaisiiig high her hand.) Ho. Indianapolis! Are you not proud and grateful 
for the War Governor I have sent you? 

INDIANAPOLIS 

(Fervently.) Grateful, yes, but first to God who chose the hand to do His 
work, the fist to smite His enemies ! Look, Mother Indiana, look ! In one 
week he had 12.000 volunteers in camp and in nine months an army of fifty- 
thousand in the field. At his trumpet call j^our legislators gave him $2,000,000. 
Lacking guns, he brought them from Europe. Lacking amunition, he made it. 
Lacking precedents, he established his own. When your soldiers were cold and 
hungry he sent them overcoats and food. When the enemy's bullets found them' 
he was there to close their dying eyes and then rush back to comfort and care 
for their families. He has held up the hands of a sorelj'-tried President ; he has 
given you title to a cloud-aspiring monument ! 

An expectant crowd gathers about the western entrance. Voices: "Prisoners 
from Ft. Donelson! Taking them out to Camp Morton! Wonder zvlutt they 
think of Grant nozv? Looks like we got 'em licked," Drum< taps heard. A 
cavalry squad rides !/;• and presses the spectators back to form a passage way 
by command of its officer. 

OFFICER 

Keep back, people ! There must be no demonstration against these Ft. Donelson 
prisoners. Any one who insults them will be arrested. Stand back there ! (Firsts 
marching to the drums, enters a squad of Union ^soldiers zvith fixed bayonets.. 
Then, betzveen files of soldiers on cither side, come the Confederate prisoners^ 
marching four abreast. They present a miserable and unhappy appearance, un- 
kempt and emaciated. Grey old men and slender boys zvearing all sorts of non- 
descript attire, some in tattered Confederate grey, others dressed in Tjuilts, strips 
of carpet, burlap sacking, etc. They carry bundles of shabby bedding, frying pans, 
tea-kettles, tin cups, and other utensils, and seem dejected and apprehensive. As 
their condition is seen there are exclamations of compassion: "Poor devils! Nearly 
starved to death! Half frozen, too — not used to this climate! By George, I 
can't stand this — Fm going to give that poor little cuss my overcoat!" Which 
he does — an example follozved by others. Food also is passed to the prisoners. 

As the procession marches out James Blake and James M. Ray take the stage. 

RAY 

Friends, tliese prisoners are our enemies, Init also many of them are sick and 
they all look hungry. Mr. Blake, of our Sanitary Commission, wishes to say a 
word to you about them. 

BLAKE 
As Mr. Ray tells you, these poor fellows appeal to our humanity. Governor 
Morton has arranged to open hospitals here in town for those too ill to be 
taken out to Camp Morton. We need nurses for this work. We are proud of 
our Sanitary Commission— the first of its kind in the whole United States. The 
women of Indianapolis have made noble response to its appeals for our own 

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soldiers. How many of you will take up this new burden? {Immediately Miss 
Catharine Merrill and other zvomen surround him.) Ah, Miss Merrill, I might 
have known you would be among the first! {The episode closes ivith the singing 
<by a chorus of "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching.") 

Great cheering heard outside the eastern entrance and a disorderly mob 
.rushes in, shouting: "Vicksburg is taken! General Lee defeated at Gettysburg! 
Vicksburg and Gettysburg! Hurrah for Grant and Meade!" The crowd sur- 
rounds red-fire flares in z'arious parts of the arena, continuing to cheer for Vicks' 
•burg and Gettysburg victories. 

In the midst of this jubilation alarm bells ring and a bugle sounds "Boots 
and Saddles.'' Governor Morton takes the stage. 

MORTON 
While we are celebrating the glorious victories of our armies in the field, our 
•own State has been invaded ! John Morgan is coming. He has crossed the Ohio. 
He is on Indiana soil. He has with him four or five thousand horsemen and 
artillerj-. He means to liberate the rebel prisoners here and expects help from 
treasonable societies in our midst. Organize without delay! Let every able- 
bodied person bring his arms! Go at once to your wards! (Immediately there 
is running to and fro, the clatter of drums, the clang of fire-bells, the shouting of 
military commands. Companies of civilians and soldiers tear across and around 
the arena on the double quick. Groups of tents are rushed up here and there 
■and the crozvd of citisens armed tvith nondescript zvcapons, shot-guns, Jiay forks, 
scythes, big revolvers, etc., constantly augments from both entrances. Finally a 
bugler mounts the stage and sounds "Attention" and Gen. John Coburn announces: 

COBURN 

Attention, everybody! The raid is over. John Morgan has been chased into 
Ohio and Union soldiers are hot on his heels. But even so he is more fortunate 
than if he had met up with the sixty thousand armed Hoosiers here in Indianapolis 
today. Better be shot than pitchforked. Now you can all go back to your homes 
— veterans of the great John Morgan Raid! {The crozcd rapidly melts azvay zvith 
hilarity and badinage,) 

A squad of soldiers crosses the arena guarding a group of bounty jumpers 
roped together and preceded by a large negro ringing a hand bell and carrying a 
placard on a pole inscribed "Bounty Jumpers." They are made to jump illustra- 
tively from time to time by prod dings from the soldiers' bayonets and are jeered 
by the spectators. 

Governor Morto)i and Calz'in Fletcher take the stage. 

MORTON 
Fletcher. I must have money to pay the bounties to fill up these new regi- 
ments. Our Butternut Legislature will not vote me a cent. The South is on its 
last legs. This coming summer will see the end of the war if we keep on pound- 
ing. But we must avoid a draft if we can. Tdl mc, a? a ])anker and friend, where 
I can get this money. 

FLETCHER 
How much do you want ? 

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AIORTON 
Twenty thousand dollars. 

FLETCHER 
What did you bring to carry it in? {Looking about him and picking up a 
basket.) Will this market basket do? 

MORTON 

Fletcher, you deserve a monument! {They go off arm in arm.) 

From one side of the arena comes a plaintive chorus singing in mournfut 
cadence, "When this cruel war is over." In the middle of the second verse the 
song is drozvned out and roared down by a group of soldiers who swing through 
the arena crashing out "John Brown's Body." 

Enter running from both ends of the arena half-a-dozen iiezvsboys who scream: 
"Lee has surrendered. The zvar is over. Journal extra — Lee surrenders to Grant."^ 
Exulting crowds pour in, waving flags, cheering and throwing confetti. Bells ring; 
whistles blow; a cannon roars zvithout and every din-making device is worked to- 
capacity, zvhile red and green flares are set off here and there among the throng- 
ing celebrants. As the din quiets down a bit somebody starts the song, "When 
Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah," and everybody joins irt 
the singing. 

A single wild, piercing bugle note sounds — then the slozv and ominous clang 
of a deep-toned gong thrice repeated. Every sound is hushed as Morton takes the 
stage. 

MORTON 
People of Indianapolis: In our hour of exultation the heavy hand of affliction 
strikes us down. President Lincoln has been assassinated. {A gasp of horror and 
amazement from the crozcd.) The best friend the South had on this earth is dead 
by the bullet of a Southern fanatic. He was too kind-hearted, too merciful, too 
lenient. Mr. Lincoln is gone but the government still lives. Senator Hendricks, Mr. 
McDonald and Ex-Governor Wright will speak at a meeting in the State House 
grounds tomorrow noon. April 20th, the day set for thanksgiving over the victory 
of our armies, shall be a day of mourning, humilitiation and prayer instead. 
(The crowd disperses zvith bozvcd heads and in silence zvhile bugle sounds "Taps."y 

~ THE BALLET OF THE GIFTS 

(Interlude music.) 
INDIANAPOLIS 
Half a century of promise, 
Half a century's fulfilment, 
• ■ Bid me thank, thee, Indiana, 

For the gracious gifts thou gavest. 

INDIANA 

Gift for gift thou hast to offer. " "* 

As these figures symbolize them. 

Swiftly summing up the years that 

ISlen now living do remember. ' ' 

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A row of dancers with symbolic gifts and banners lias appeared behind each 
pedestal, and now, to ballet music, the g^roups, as enumerated, come upon the stage 
from alternate sides and exchange their gifts in ballet movements, after which 
*hey retire and cluster about their respective pedestals. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
The quiet, backwoods town once known — 
{Milkmaids with pails.) 

INDIANA 
Now to the bustling city grown. 
; {Fashionable ladies with shopping bags.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
A hub with railroads radiate — 

{Spoked hub.) 

INDIANA 
A land with no spot isolate. 

(Globe.) ^ 

INDIANAPOLIS 
A mart where myriad buyers meet — 

(Baskets.) 

INDIANA 

Vast herds and fields of waving wheat. 
(Cornucopias,) 

INDIANAPOLIS. 
Twelve hundred factories I own — ' * 

(Toothed wheels.) ''■ 

INDIANA 
The coal they use is all home-grown. 
' (Lumps of coal.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
My schools and colleges I boast — 

(Books.) 

INDIANA 

Youth throngs — an ever-growing host. _ 

(Children with toys, racquets, balls, bats, etc.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
Here Art has built a studio — 

(Palettes.) 

INDIANA 
Beauty and truth are mine to show. 

(Mirrors.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
A forum here for Wisdom's voice — 
(Trumpets.) 
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INDIANA 

Wise leaders of my people's choice. 
' (Lamps.) 

I INDIANAPOLIS 

Fire down the street — ten authors gone! 

{ (Huge quill pens.) 

1 INDIANA 

\ Their sellers best go climbing on! 

. {Toy ladders.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
My foes of old no more prevail. 

(Policemen with handcuffs.) 

INDIANA 
Good! Send these rascals off to jail! 

(Mud and Malaria arc manacled.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
High hopes I had of Nature's gas — 
(Natural Gas, short, bladder-like person who collapses in dance zvith Consumption.y 

INDIANA 

Consumption danced with him — alas ! 

(Tall, cadaverous fellow.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
To warriors yon tall monument ! 

(Wreaths.) 

INDIANA 

My soldiers circle it content. 

(Swords.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 

These laurels crowns for those I call — 
(Five chaplets.) 

INDIANA 
Yes, noble benefactors all! 
{Five dancers bearing banners inscribed with the names called, exchanged for the 
chaplets as the names are spoken.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 
Ovid Butler Dr. Robert W. Long 

John Herron John H. Holliday. 

James Whitcomb Riley 

INDIANAPOLIS 
Upon the Nation's service bent — 

(Four gilded gavels.) 

INDIANA 
From "no mean city" these four went ! 
(Four banners bearing names, exchanged for the gavels as called.) 

{ INDIANAPOLIS 

Harrison Fairbanks 

' Hendricks Marshall. 

INDIANAPOLIS 
When from the waves our ships were hurled. 
(Soldiers in khaki.) 

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INDIANA 
Hoosier avengers thrilled the world! 

(Victory distributes decorations.) 

INDIANAPOLIS 

And now in phalanxed panoply. 

I summon all to join with me 

These liundred years thus to recall 

With thanks to Him who giveth all ! 
To march music fey the orchestra, from both entrances come, in procession 
end in the --rder of their first appearance, all zvho have taken part in the pageant 
and group themselves about the main pedestals and the stage where Victory is 
elevated upon a pedestal and surrounded by the dancers who took part in the 
Ballet of the Gifts. All face oiitzvard. Then is sung, by a massed chorus, the 
audience joining in the refrain, the Centennial Hymn: 

IN-DI-AN-AP-O-LIS 

(Air: "Battle Hymy. of the Republic") 

We have builded us a City which foundations hath in God, 
Out of wilderness upspringing at His consecrating nod — 
Blessed every towering battlement, blest every foot of sod, 
In-di-an-ap-o-lis ! 

CHORUS 
Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory. Hallelujah ! 
Glory, glory, Hallelujah! In-di-an-ap-o-lis! 

Our hundred years are but a breath in His vast Century, 
And yet the wonder they have wrought enraptures us who see — 
What tongue can tell or fancy paint thy splendors yet to be, 
In-di-an-ap-o-lis ! 

CHORUS 

His care unto Millennium in reverence we pray. 
Our children's children's heritage upon His altars lay; 

He who hath kept us to this hour shall He not guard for aye 
In-di-an-ap-o-lis ! 

CHORUS 

At the conclusion of the hymn, the air of which is continued by the orchestra, 
the celebrants march out in order as they came. 

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Committees 

COSTUME COMMITTEE 

Chairman Mrs. Elizabeth Bogert, Schofield 

First Vice-Chairman Mrs. Leo K. Fesler 

Second Vice-Chairman Mrs. W. O. Bates 

Secretary Mrs. Edgar R. Eskew 

In charge of the workrooms Mrs. Anna S. Cassanges 

COMMITTEE COLLECTOR AUTHENTIC COSTUMES. 

Mrs. Isaac Born. 
Mrs. John Downing Johnson. 
Mrs. Edward Ferger. 
Mrs. Warren Oakes. 

COMMITTEE 0> HATS A>D HEAD DBESSES. 

Mrs. Fred Balz. 

Mrs. Edward L. Pedlow. 

Miss Bernice Sinclair. 

CASTING COMMITTEE 

Mrs. John Downing Johnson. Miss Etta Scherf 

' George Somnes 

MUSIC COMMITTEE 

W. S. Mitchell, Chairman. Miss Emily Fletcher. 

Miss Mary E. Nicholson. Mrs. Carol B. Carr. 

Mrs. F. M. Hodges. Mrs. Theodore Wagner. 

PEOPERTT COMMITTEE 

Miss Alice Murdock. Mrs. Myra Richards. 

Mr. Edward Werner. Mr. H. D. Tutewiler. 

Mrs. Marie Karrer. 

POSTER COMMITTEE 

Miss Olive Rush. . if 

CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE 

Herbert W. Foltz. / 

LIGHTING COMMITTEE 

James B. Steep. 

DANCE COMMITTEE 

George W. Lipps, Chairman. Miss Lilly Gaily. 

MissVlorence Farman. Mrs. Kate Steichmann. 

Indianapolis Male Chorus, under the direction of Mr. Glenn Friermood. 
Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. W. S. Mitchell. 



;! COMMITTEE ON DTEI?fG. 

Community Dyes from the Waldcraft Shop, 1625 N Delaware St. 

Mrs. Alfred Potts. 

Mr. and Mrs Walter T. Baker. 

I\Irs. James Thompson. 

Mrs. Frank Bock. 

Mr. Sam Smart. 

Louis O'Connor 

Mildred Brosnan 

Winona Price 

Helen Carroll 

Costumes used in Episodes I, II and III were loaned by 
The Indianapolis Center of Tlie Dx'ama League. 

We wish to express our thanks to the following firms for various materials 
and supplies used in our workrooms. 

L. S. Ayres & Co. 

Baker Bros. 

Carlin Music Co. 

Economy Furniture Co. 

Hatfield Electric Co. 

Hibben-HoUweg Co. 

Kautz Stationery Co. 

H. Lieber Co. 

Merchants Heat & Light Co. 

Miller Hardware Co. 

New York Store. 

Charles Mayer & Co. 

Peoples Outfitting Co. 

Star Millinery Co. 

W. K. Stewart Co. 

Vonnegut Hardware Co. 

White Sewing Machine Co. 

The Command of Fort Benjamin Harrison. 

Prest-0-Lite Company, for Electric Light Controllers. 

Maas-Niemeyer Lumber Co. 

H. W. Glossbrenner. 

Community Service. 

The Knights of Columbus. 

Waldcraft Co. 

Shortridge High School. • 

Itasca Tribe of Red Men No. 252, I. O. R. M. 

John C. Loucks, Fire Chief, for hand engine and bucket 

brigade. 
DouRlas Pierce, for old vehicle. 
H. D. Tutewiler, for stage coach. 
:\lrs. Anna S. Casanges, for work on Costumes. 
Miss Caroline Henricks, for secretarial work. 
The Athenaeum 
Tlie School Board 
Young Men's Christian Association 
Board of Public Works for Rehearsal Rooms 

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Persons of the Pageant 

THE FOLLOWING PERSONS APPEAR IN THE PRELUDE: 

(Sliortridge High School) 

Stanley Bailey, Paul Barrett, Taylor Creighton, Edwin Goodman, Bernard 
Crrifley, Robert Hartman, Robert Hollingsworth, Paul McMullen, Rober McNutt, 
Heber Taylor, (.:'len Wle^e, Helen Bedell, Melba Donaldson, Margt Etler, La- 
vena Fisher, Beatrice Jeffers, Florence Kessler, Elizabeth Martz, Eleanor Muel- 
ler, Jeanette Nunamaker, Lucile Oglesby, Janice Thompson, Doris Walsh, 
Pauline Wilson, Nelson Hunter, Joseph Sheprad. 

(Manual Training Higlr School) 

Ada Brundrett, Ruth Brundrett, Viora Frye, Anna Greenburg, Barbara Hens- 
ley, Mary Homberg, Helen Ledig, Anna Pollack, Lois Unversaw, Gladys Wheeler, 
Fred Buddenbaum, Handley Gaeaway, Raymond Damaske, Albert Hartman, 
Arthur Landes, Louis Levi, George McNeeley, Claude Pitzenburger, Fred Poeh- 
ler, Robert Uhl, Lennard Spreecher, Ernest Wright, Ralph York. 

(Technical High School) 

Mary Elizabeth Hollister, Margaret Strassler, Margaret Murphy, Dorothy 
Black, Eleanor E. McColloum, Helen Erber, Travilla loor, Eloise Ourings, 
Lewis Leir, Julia Becherer, Elizabeth Schmidt, Dorothy Drake, Beulah Mae 
Kealing, Elizabeth Moore, Esther Winkler, Helen Marer, Louise Ehrgott. Ruth 
Hall, Wilma Mikesell, Josephine M. Vogt, Marjorie Woodruff, June Hefner, 
Mirian Garrison, Edith Amhub, Marcella Neff, Marguaretta Williams, Helen 
Wiebke. 

PERSONS OF THE THIRD EPISODE. 

Enid Pierce, Mrs. L. J. Brown, Winifred Galvin, Grace Woodell, Mrs. Omar 
Hougham, Ruth Boyer, Gertrude Brown, Mrs. Maria Jenkins Ferger, Atla Hart- 
ley, Mrs. Sipe, Mrs. G. B. Given, Mrs. John Holland, Gertrude Delbrook, Jack 
Dyer, Lebian Bohnstadt, R. Dyer, Mrs. Nathalia Coffin, Josephine Brown, Kath- 
leen Dyer, Cecilia G. Wood, Kathrine Barns, Gladys Urban, Ada Pierce, Cecelia 
Galvin, Ralph Carter. Mona Sipe, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Schwartz, Gladys Irvin. 

PERSONS OF THE FOURTH EPISODE. 

F. X. Garaghan, M. W. McCarthy, Maurice F. Gehl, Miss L. Evard, G. A. 
Burns, Evelyn Smith, Romilda Goffun, Louis B. Suding, Michael J. Burke, An- 
nette K. Beasley, Charles S. Garrison, Jack W. Garrison. Richard Busselle, 
Frank O. Hanley, E. Fallahay, Francis J. Moore, Helen Ready, Catherine L. 
Lanahan, F. B. McNamara, Marie G. Basso, A. J. Peters, Mrs. Burns, G. Blake, 
Florence Davis, Catherine Prenatt, Margaret Cayton, Lillian Cayton, Catherine 
Doyle, Rosemary Kalk, Paul Kramer, Fred W. Ashbaugh, Maurice Davis, Gus 
A. Oefelin, John S. Deal. F. J. Lenihan, T. H. Barrett, L. Cochran, H. L. Bwyer, 
E. D. Bossen, Loratta Evard, Helen O'Hearne, Helene Warner, Mary Foley, 
Miss Teepe, Miss Sadahur, Esther L. Beasley, Margaret Kretzer, Loretta Metz- 
ler. Rose McNamara, Margaret McNamara, Rosemary Kalb, Julia Dougherty, 
Kathryn Kalg, Joe McNamara, Irene Seuel, Edward G. Greene, Lawrence R. 
Lyons, Henry F. Greene, Thomas Meyer, Carl T. Schenk, Herbert A. Frohlinger, 
George Joseph Zeller, Ed. Zeller, Catherine Looney. 

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THE FOLLOWING PERSONS WILL TAKE TART 15 THE FOURTH (B> 
EPISODE— THE FIRST THREE DECADES: 

Edith Beane, Mary Webster, Mrs. Wm. Hecker, Mr. Laurence Bennet, Mrs.. 
Laurence Bennet, Aida Aikinan, Inez Thompson, Marjorie Chiles, Mrs. Fred 
Doeppers, Elizabeth Hayes, Mrs. A. E. Davis, Mrs. Blanche Haymaker, Susan- 
nah Swain, Jean Davis, Mr. George Bartlett, Mrs. George Bartlett, Paul Bart- 
lett, Cleora Epperson, Mr. Epperson, Mrs. Epperson, Helen Powers, Florence; 
Adams, Olga Bonke, Leona Highstral, Mabel Perry, Edith Umholtz, Marjory 
Byrood, Florence Berger, Margaret Strieben, Vivian Miller, Mary Albright,. 
Marie Streeblin, Hazel Lentz, Mildred Murry, Evelyn McQueen, Eleanor Mc- 
Queen, Betty Selvage, Harned Jacne, Catharine Hanna, Josephine King, Irene 
Suel, Catharine Swain, Avanelle Thorp, Frank Arens, Elmer Mussing, Earl 
Kesner, Hardee Hord, Eleanor Trye, Heni'y Loremsen, Stanford Kappmeyer^ 
Edward Nuger, Joseph Nickvarg, Vernon Cristy, Vivian Cissel. 

PERSONS OF THE FIFTH EPISODE. 

Shortridge High ScbooL 

ARABS. 

Richard Lennox, Messrs. Dunbar, Furstenburg, Urich, Kilgore, Thrams,. 
Brown, Thompson. Brown, Goodwin, Hager, Hollingsworth, Hummins, Winter, 
Gray, Stubbs, Reavis, David, Green, Reynolds, David, Hind, Wisdom. 

GRATBACKS. 

Harry Green, Messrs. Griffey, Lawson, Dpw, Roney, Irvine, Weise, Barrows,. 
Johnston, Bryan, Jenkins, Jenkins, Shephard, Kamps, Ferguson. Dithmer, Page,. 
Churchman, Smith, Spencer, Slack, Harper, Solar, Lytle, W. C. Bevington; Mrs, 
W. C. Bevington, Walter Cusack, Mrs. Walter Cusack, Mrs. Wallace Lee, Mrs.. 
J. P. Dunn, Eleanor Dunn, Caroline Dunn, Julia Tutewiler, Mary Butler, Elea- 
nor Taylor, Elsie Brandt. 

PERSONS OF THE SIXTH EPISODE. 

Dorothy Hill, Minnie Kaplan, Mr. McKelvey, Murray Wichard, Thomas Gal- 
lagher, Mrs. Quinn, Mrs. Moffat Green, Edgar Perkins, Hazel Fessler, Rebecca. 
Kaplan, Lucille Stewart, Elsie Neff, Agnes Williams, Helen Ward, Rebecca. 
Bennett, Louise Bennett, Joseph Beattie, Mrs. F. Burns, Bernice Smith. Verle- 
Holt. Virginia Coons, Morrison Davis, J. W. Erther, Elsie Goett, Raymond 
Gregg, Lucille Poe. Mabel Stanley, Mary Jane Walters, Miss Walters, J. A. 
Murphy, Dumont Caldwell, Mrs. Lynn Parrish, A. J. Peters, August A. Alandt,, 
Francis J. Moore, Marian Huntington, Ruth Blake. 

PERSONS OF THE SEVENTH EPISODE. 

Kate M. Rabb, Mira White, Helen Shallat, Earl Stucky, Cecil Harman.. 
Clark Hale. Donald Carlysle, C. C. Boone, Madeline Edwards. Phylis Holmes.. 
Grace Ayres, Beulah Rawlings, Margaret Machillas. Elsie Davidson, Mammie 
Goe. Marie Brennan. Mrs. Pearl Brewer. Edna Brewer, Richard Sperry, Jer- 
ome Manchester, Lucy Toph. Donald Nield, John Haynes. Harold G. Kearns. 
Clifton Chandler, Bennie Markowitz. Ralph Robinson, Maurice Garner, Stella 
Plake, Pauline Bierley, Esther M. Bailey. Wayne Williams, Leona Smith. Mar- 
tha Fouche, Maude Haufmann, D. Franklin Burton, Cleitus Williams, Richard 
Butler. Sylvia Johnson. Lester Theobald. Norman Weisman, Rader Winget, 
John Ray Underwood, Edgar Buell, Frank Baldwin, Elamer Rocap, Percy 

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Pettijohn, Alvin Scherf, Maude Musgrove, Francis Allfie, Floyd Hennigar, Rob- 
ert Combs, M. Harding, Anna Sandler, Rose Ro'binowitz, Josephine Biemer, 
Huthe Harris, Margaret Otte, Florence Fox, Helen Poehlor, Adelia 
Mack, Helen Harrison, Marjorie Harrison, Theodore Sperry, Helen 
Brill, Mollie Kobey, Julius Cohn, Cora Shepherd, Mattie Brown, Mrs. 
Cleo B. Wolford, J. C. Hale, Donald Carlisle, Mrs. J. Williard Bolte, Lois Wells, 
Mrs. iThomas C. Clapp, Mrs. J. N. Little, Mary Hickey, Helen Hickey, Lena 
Mehan, Adelaide Smith, Elizabeth Clark, Martha J. Obrist, Mrs. Joseph J. 
Daniels, Maude McVicker, Cathei'ine Corcoran, Esther Hummel, Florence Giie- 
del, Lucille Reeves, Florence Waltz, Evelyn Stephenson, Susan Walker, Pearl 
Hopkins, Marie Brandt, x\Ita E. Waltz, Bernice Oglesby, Jessie I. Rodman, Guy 
Boyd, Leonora G. B rnloehr, Marie LaForge, Rena Stacker, Ira McKinsey, 
Josephine V/itherby, Esther Sohn, Bertha Fraud, LaValette Stout, Walda Can- 
field, Celia Hirsh, Ida Golas, Yetta Rothbard, Rebecca Greensburg, Bertha 
Markowitz, Edith Stout, Charlotte Gilman, Olive Rush, Mrs. Maude Swift An- 
thony, Mrs. L. S. Carr, Elizabeth Carr, Dorothy Carr, Mrs. J. W. Erther, Mr. 
M. L. Harris, Mrs. M. L. Harris, Mr. Ai^thur McCormic, Mrs. Arthur McCormic, 
Mr. Duke Merrick, Mrs. Duke Merrick, Mrs. Illie Grimes, John Webster, Mil- 
dred Durbin, Carl R. Schnell, David Durbin, Esther Amick, Gladys Stevens, 
Ruth Nelson, Francis Baker, Richard Habbe, Gerald Carrier, W. L. Shirley, 
David Granofsky, Lillian Nackenhorst, Florence Uhl, Cecelia Adams, Evelyn 
Athon, Mary Alice Morton, Vivian Sowers, Clara Day, Mrs. Ruth H. Allee, Yerle 
Holt, Frances B. Eichman, Constance Morley, Cecelia Egerton, Gay Van No- 
strum, Clara Rice, Josephine Duke, Mabel Ervin, Ruth Mull, Sue Garden, 
■Gladys Hartman, Florence Bokeloh, Beulah Plake, Margaret Gilday, Bertha Ed- 
wards, Frances Scott, Harriet Caseldine. Edna Harms, Thelnia Thacker, Mar- 
garet Briggs, Hazel Baird, Susan Walker, E. Hogan, Margaret McCord, Julia 
Cary, Mary Russell^' Catherine Hadley, Helen Hoffstadt, Mrs. J. Hagen, Mary 
Buck, Belle Phillips, Elizabeth Hogan, Robert Guedel, Ruth Jasper, Gretchen 
Nackenhorst, Glen Campbell, Harry Tobin, Wm. Gaddis, L. Katherine Kiefer, 
Laurel C. Thayer, Mrs. Adolph Schmuck, Peulah Plake, June Kee Fauvre, 
Edith Venn, Janet Kuriales. Ethel E. Gillespie, Mrs. Frederic Krull, Jeannette 
Floryda Gillespie, Vera Pugh, Virginia Wiles, Mrs. Phillip Zoercher, Ruth Mil- 
ler, June Johnstone Hunt, Mrs. J. B. Wiles, Mrs. Minnie Olcott Williams, Miss 
Pearl Spangler, Mrs. Ranslord, Eva Gough, Bernice Oglesby, Waide Price, 
Joseph H. Bell, John Allbright, Mrs. E. L. Taylor, Joseph J. Daniels, Estel L. 
Taylor, Mrs. Henry C. Ketcham, Mrs. Cora Harris, Ervin Snyder, Walton Cush, 
John Zaring. Ralph Bockstahler, George Zink, Robert Uhl, Wm. Ganes, George 
Cleaver. Arthur Landis, Edwin Berryhill, George Hider, Alfred Noll, Edgar 
Driftmeyer, Harry Johnson, Otis Ervin, Alfred Mueller, John W. Oliver, Mil- 
dred Isaacs, Mrs. Chas. R. Cooke, Anna M. Wilson, Martha H. Little, Cora 
Virginia Clapp, Nellie K. Stammel, Anna M. Kurtz, Lida Warbinton, Belle Ro- 
berts, Barbara McClintock, Ethel Willis, Catherine Porter, Mary Guirer, Vir- 
ginia Agal, Elizabeth A. Grossman, Pauline Crow, Thomas King, Glenn Bond, 
Newland Jones, M. V. McKeighan, Jesse Cooper, Everett Todd, Forrest Wol- 
bertine, James Alexander, .Edward Boteler. 

Knights of St. George— Zouaves. 

C. Brain, Leo Weiner, H. Schulsky, Chas. Rinderknecht, J. Many, L. Muel- 
ler, Mr. Sullivan, A. Rothz, L. Maler, K. Rothz, J. V. Steele, P. James, 
Kuhn, C. Kuch, R. Noll, W. Booky, C. Braun, J. Brandt, Otterbach, Salmon. 

PERSONS OF THE EIGHTH EPISODE. 

QUIET TOWN Clara Kroeckel 

Assistants: Lillian Kroeckel, Lennice Home, Dorothy M. Patterson, Marie 
A. Hilgenberg, Mary E. Moore, Trabilla loor. 

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BAILKOAD CENTER Mrs. Edna Clemens 

Assistants: Mrs. Cooper Zaring, Mrs. H. W. Hayes, Miss Claire ThoBipson, 
Miss Pauline Elsasser, Mrs. Charles B. Hirsh, Miss Edith Weber. 

MARKET Verle M. Holt 

Assistants: Eleanor E. McColloum, Helen M. Erber, Dorothy M. Black, 
Louise Ehrgott, Josephine M. Vogt. 

FACTORY - Ethel Hughes- 

Assistants: Luir Pitzschler, Lucile Thompson, Mildred Hoffman, Margaret 
Marby, Lula Kennedy, Mrs. David Ross. 

EDUCATIOjV Mildred Burkhardt 

Assistants: Ruth Harbison, Helen Cohler, Alberta Joulding, Myrtle Wilkin- 
son, Anna Avery, Lora Shinn. 

ART L Margaret Fulkner 

Assistants: Eunice Marshall, Emma Brink, Thelma Williams, Cora Moor- 
man, Gertrude Ostermeier, Gleniva Wilcox. 

FORUM Pearl Kiefer 

Assistants: Mrs. Pihl, Ethel Tyler, Virginia Montani, Florence Engelhardt. 

BUSTLING CITY Amelia Woerner 

Assistants: Hazel Buchanan, Betsy McCormick, Lillian Weber, Anna Holt- 
gren, Eleanor Hein, Florence Wilkinson. 

ONE BIG STATE Florence Hadley 

Assistants: Edna Fehreubach, Nell , Katharine Rubush, Esther 

Thornton, Anna Kimball, Theresa F. Reardon. 

MANIFOLD PRODUCTS Mrs. Edward Zimmer 

Assistants: Mrs. C. E. Scales, Mrs. H. J. Dettra, Helen McArthur, Mrs. C. 
A. Stolte, Miss Lois Stewart, Mrs. A. Dietrich. 

COAL AND OTHER PRODUCTS Mrs. Koster 

Assistants: Anna Willhite, Margaret Meehan, Mrs. J. A. Hook, Avis Baker, 
Mrs. F. W. Meith, Eloise Owings. 

YOUTH Mrs. Edward Clemens 

Assistants: Mrs. Cooper Zaring, Mrs. H. W. Hayes, Miss Claire Thompson, 
Miss Pauline Elsasseu, Mrs. Chas. B. Hirsh, Miss Edith Weber. 

BEAUTY Eleanor Mueller 

Assistants: Althea Johnson, Mary Harbison, Dorothy Goodman, Agnes^ 
Search, Victoria Montani, Martha Moorman. 

WIJ^DOM - Miss Elsa Nix 

Assistants: Zoe Wilkins, Velna Harris, Billie Kennedy, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. 
Kaugman, Ruth Stewart. 

STANDARD BEARERS 

Misses Elizabeth Ebner; Thelma Ball; Georgia Jolley; Lena Trinkle; 
Alpha Bassett; Martha Rundell; Grace Wise; Helen Smith. Louise Usselman; 
Louise Rundell; Rose Smith; Belle Smith. 

Mud 

Malaria H. L. Earnest 

Policeman Carl Graf 

Victory 

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NATIONAL 
CITY BANK 

Our Banking experience covers 
every phase of Comnaercial Bank- 
ing — our organization is planned 
for the benefit of Manufacturers, 
Merchants and Individuals. 

We shall be glad to be of service 
to you. 



14-16 East Wasliingrton Street 
INDIAIfAPOLIS 




Tax Exempt 

FRANK K. SAWYER, President 
4 Per Cent, to 8 Per Cent. 
Investments 

Secured by Real Estate 

INDIANAPOLIS SECURITIES 
COMPANY 

Tkird Floor Law Building 



THE 


The Railroadmen's 


Starr Piano Co. 

(Manufacturers) 
Pianos, Player-Pianos, Phono- 


Building and Savings 
Association 


graphs, Player Rolls and 
Gennett Records 


Assets Over 
ELEVEN 




MILL IONS 


^ 


A 


Salesroom 


Has Aided More People in Owning 


138-140 North Pennsylvania St. 


Homes Than Any Other Like 


INDIAXAPOLIS 


Institution 



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1820 1920 

Indianapolis 
Centennial Program 

SATURDAY, JUNE FIFTH 

8:00 P. M. — Centennial Mass Meeting, Tomlinson Hall; Address by Charles W. 
Jewett, Mayor of Indianapolis — Music. 

SUNDAY, JUNE SIXTH 

MORNING — Historical and Patriotic Services in Sunday Schools and Churches,, 
appropriate to the Centennial. 

AFTERNOON — Joint Concerts, Centennial Chorus of 500 voices, accompanied 
by 70 pieces from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of 
Prof. Edward Bailey Birge. Florence Hinkle, soprano; Merle Alcock, con- 
tralto; Arthur Kraft, tenor, and Arthur Middleton, bass, at the Fair Grounds 
Coliseum. A charge of 50c is made for reserved tickets. 

EVENING — The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Orville Harrold, famous 
operatic tenor, at the Fair Grounds Coliseum. A charge of 50c for tickets, 
admits to reserved seats. 

EVENING — Community Sing on the steps of the Monument at vesper time. 
MONDAY, JUNE SEVENTH 

HOLIDAY — Commemoration of Centennial. 

MORNING — Centennial observance in all public schools. 

3:00 P. M. — Laying of Corner Stone and Ceremonies at Arsenal Technical 
Schools. 

8:00 P. M. — Centennial Parade over principal downtown streets, depicting de- 
velopment of Indianapolis. Magnificent floats representative of every fac- 
tor in the development of the city will portray the spirit of 100 years of 
progress. 

TUESDAY, JUNE EIGHTH 

8:00 P. M. — Centennial Pageant in the Coliseum at Fair Grounds. Two thous- 
and characters, in the quaint costumes of the past, will be presented ia 
twelve epochs reflecting the history of the city. An admission of 30c covers 
reserved seats, 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE NINTH 

8:00 P. M. — Water Carnival at Riverside Park. May be viewed between River- 
side and Emrichsville Bridges. Illuminated floats will display Centennial 
spirit in this great water parade. This will be the closing event of the 
official Centennial Celebration. 

Displays of Art and Relics at State House and John Herron Art Institute — 
Open to the public from Saturday, June a, to Wednesday, June 9. Golf, 
tennis and baseball tournaments in city parks Sunday and Monday, June 
6 and 7. 

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Linton 
Collieries 
Company 



Producers of 



COAL 



NASH 

PASSENGER 
CARS 

and 

TRUCKS 



Offices: 
Fletcher Sayings and Trnst Bldg. 

Indianapolis 



Losey - Nash Motor Co. 
400 N. Capitol Ave. 




Bronze Memorial Tablets, Seamless 
Steel Tubing. Brass, Copper, 
Bronze and Aluminum in sbeets, 

rods and tubes. 

*• 
Aluminum Solder, Brass Railings, 
Push Bars and Kick Plates. Cop- 
per Kettles and Coils of all De- 
scriptions. 

130-142 E. GEOI^GIA STREET. 

Telephones 
Main 121, Main 2354 Auto. 21-221 



Auto Springs! 

We manufacture and repair them. 
Your springs are as important a 
part of your car as any other 
part, and the most generally 
neglected. Do you neglect 
yours? Your springs should be 
gone over each year. Any infor- 
mation desired on springs gladly 
given. 

GUEUTAL SPRING SERVICE CO. 
Brookside and Belt R. R. 

Phone, Woodruff 3961 



Peter Bernd & Son 

Builders of 

Quality Wagons and Motor Truck 
Bodies 

Repairing and Painting of Wagons 
and Automobiles 

Repairing Tops and Curtains 

Ui East Morris St. 

Phone, Prospect 96 



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R Ansiiv* ^PfVirP ^ ^''^^P* ^"^ correct diagnosis of trouble 
iVcpair iJClVIC" I Conscientious, intelligent work 

The B. C. Torelle Co., Inc. 

Contractors 
Plumbing, Heating & Ventilating 

902-904 Ft. Wayne Avenue 

Main 1871 Auto. 31-232 



1855— BUTLER COLLEGE— 1920 
Summer School Session of 1920 

Monday, June 21, to Saturday, August 14. 

Attractive Surroundings — Moderate Expenses — Standard Instruction. 

A Summer School Bulletin may be obtained by addressing 

BUTLER COLLEGE 

Indianapolis, Indiana 





The Cream of Quality 

FURNAS ICE CREAM 

Wholesale and Retail 


Browder 
Ice Cream Co. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 




127-133 North Alabama St. 


918 North Senate Avenue 




Indianapolis, Ind. 


Main 5595 Auto. 23-674 



Victor Bearings 

BRONZE BACK and DIE CAST 




Are you getting- bearings that are 
made in accordance with your blue- 
prints? 

VICTOR bearings are made in exact 
accordance with your blueprints. 
VICTOR bearings have a uniform 
wall thickness, have tlie amount of 
babbitt specified, liave all o i 1 
grooves and chamfer edges CAST, 
not cut. VICTOR bearings can be 
REFUELED and save those orders 
for ca.stings scrapped in your as- 
sembly. 

Write for sample taken from our 
regular production. 
Mail us ycnir blueprints for an esti- 
mate. 

MODKRN DUO & TOOIi fOMPAXY 
Iiidiaiiniiolis, Iiitliaiiii 
\V. Ij Suuilagre. I'rop. 

Established 10O."> 



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Compliments of 



The Marion County 
Lumber and Coal Co. 



Kentucky Avenue at Minnesota 
and Reisner Streets 



Main 1775 



Auto. 23-538 



Belmont 12 



Auto 23-520 



Gallon 
Brothers 



Plumbing, Heating, 
Ventilating Contractors 



Ice Machine Work a Specialty 



24 South Alabama Street 
Indianapolis 




Mid-West 

Crushed Stone Quarries 
Company 

Manufacturer! of 

Ground Limestone 

Soil Swectner 



New Location 
225 3f. Pennsylyania St, 

General Office 

A. B. Meyer and Co, 



bZ 



KAMPHAUS & BROWN 
Auto Repair Co. 

Dodge and Cadillac Experts 

First Class Work, First Class 

Workmanship 



THE FRANK HATFIELD CO. 

623-27 N. Cai»itol Ave. 




THE UNIVERSAL CAR. 



STOP— and see us 
1019 y. Capitol Aye. M. 2104 



Authorized FORD Dealer 

Sales Service 

"Courtesy and service always** 



Main 3535 Auto 24-704 

THE TV. S. FBTE TRANSFER CO. 

Expert Riggers, Motor Tnick 

Delivery 

Erecton of Stacks, Boilers and En- 
gines, Safes, Machinery and Heavy 
Hauling, Household Moving and 
Storage 
"We Haul Anytlung" 
27 S. Alabama St. Indianapolis 



The 
MAIL PRESS 

PRINTERS 
PUBLISHERS 

312 East Market Street 



Heart O' Trade 

Published by The Indianapolis Chamber 
of Commerce 

Ask ''Hank'' Williams 



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FRANCIS PHARMACY CO. 

OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA STREETS 

Prescription Specialists 

490,000 Physicians' rrescrii)tioiis accurately 

dispensed is the record of onr 

unequalled service 

SANITARY SODA FOUNTAIN— QUALITY AND SERVICE 

We are as near to you as your phone 
MAIN 1029 - AUTO. 25-429 



Woodi-nff 444 Auto. 62-256 

BIG CHIEF GASOLINE 

PENN STAR MOTOR OILS- 
TOMAHAWK GREASES 

Iroquois Petroleum Co. 

Write, wire or phone us for pound, 
barrel or car load. Quality, service 
and appreciation are back of the 
sale of our products. "Try us for 
a difference." 

E. 21ST & BBIGHTWOOD AVE. 



Both Telephones: 
Washington 2362 Auto. 42-297 

Indianapolis Flower 
and Plant Co. 

CUT FLOWERS AND PLANTS 
FLOKAL EMBLEMS 

Northeast Cor. Central Atc. 
and 34th St. 



Union Securities, Inc. 

INDUSTRIAL PROMOTIONS 

INDIANA BUSINESS SOLICITED 

Merchants Bank Building 
MAIN 5157 INDIANAPOLIS 



Hotel Lincoln 

Corner Washington and Illinois Sts. 
Quick Lunch Coffee Room 

Music by Orchestra Daily 

Quality Service 

Entertainment Unsurpassed 



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C. M. Valentine & Company 

Shirt Makers and Importers 

CLOTHING, HATS 

AND 

MEN'S FURNISHINGS 

Fifteen North Pennsylvania Street 

INDIANAPOLIS 



lersonal Service 

Wangelin-Sharp 
Company 

AUTHORIZED FORD DEALERS 
459-465 Virginia Avenue INDIANAPOLIS 



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